Shadow Dance

''Angela Carter''s writing is pyrothechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language'' OBSERVER

''The boldest of English writers'' LORNA SAGE

''A great writer . . . A real one-off'' SALMAN RUSHDIE

''The scar drew her whole face sideways and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lop-sided, skin, features and all, dra...