Praise for Children of Paradise

'One of Britain's best young short story writers... eerie... festers in glorious style' The Telegraph

'Strange, tortured... magnificently spiky' Guardian

'Fluent and transporting... utterly enthralling' TLS

'A remarkable and memorable achievement. To combine the gothic, the carnivalesque, the ghastly and the sublime in a relatively slender novel shows considerable talent indeed' Scotland on Sunday

'The deft hand of an auteur at work' Financial Times

'Camilla Grudova is Angela Carter's natural inheritor... She is sincerely strange - a glittering literary gem in a landscape awash with paste and glue and artificial settings' Nicola Barker, author of Darkmans

'Grudova understands that the best writing has to pull off the hardest aesthetic trick - it has to be both memorable and fleeting' Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk

'It's easy to write what everybody else writes and that's not what Camilla Grudova is doing... We need work like this in the world' Sinéad Gleeson