Angela Carter's exploration of life in a female body taught me to be comfortable in my own | Evie Wyld
I was 15 and in the bottom set for most subjects at school. The Magic Toyshop changed everything
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter was the first book I read at school that seemed to make some kind sense of my life. I was 15, and in the bottom set for every class other than art, where I painted very badly and was praised a disproportionate amount for my terrible, angsty self-portraits; in most of which I appeared bald for some reason.
As the weakest student of every bottom set – quite an accomplishment – I couldn’t spell and my handwriting bordered on illegible. From my point of view, there was a
