This is my ignorance, but I'm not sure why Angela Carter is held in such high regard. This was a simple domestic tale of a privileged woman who has to go and stay with awful relatives. There was a macabre feel as her uncle was obsessed with puppets and controlling his family, but I didn't feel any horror and the purported magical realism was hardly there at all - very little super natural went on. Maybe if I had ever felt the constraints of being a woman without agency in society I'd understand more.
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