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Angela Carter's last book, Wise Children, was written and posted whilst she was dying from cancers, in 1991. Transcending her physical deterioration in excellent fashion, Carter made this a most life-affirming novel, to get the vitality of 'otherness.' This Audible exclusive production, expertly read by Tracey Ullman, stands in celebration of a renowned author known for the richness of her creativeness, wit and feminist insight. About the e book Wise Children is a richly comic story encompassing the tangled fortunes of two theatrical households. Seen through the sight of 75-year-old Dora Chance, and her twin Nora, the novel unfurls within the space of a day, as the sisters make to attend their perennially absent father's 100th birthday party. With a broad and colourful, often alternatively crazy cast, the storyline veers off in a multitude of directions as Dora's reminiscent narrative slips from past to present suddenly and seamlessly throughout. Packed with gags, tears, histories, mysteries, feuds and loving (plus some not-so-romantic) unions, Wise Children, doesn't miss a technique. Participating in on Carter's admiration of Shakespeare and the surreal, the novel is jam-packed with entrancing powerful realism and components of the carnivalesque. About the author Angela Carter was created in 1940, in Sussex. She grew up in the shabbily respectable south London region of Balham, the second child of your eccentric journalist dad and a neurotic housewife mother. She studied English at Bristol University or college before travelling extensively, instructing and writing numerous best-selling books. They have all received extensive critical acclaim and remain stable favourites of modern English books. Angela was a devout feminist throughout her life, had written for Extra Rib newspaper and voted Labour. Her books are wholly reflective of her world views and continue steadily to inspire new generations of women and men worldwide. About the narrator Tracey Ullman is a multi-award-winning tv set, level and film actress, screenwriter, producer, director, author and all-round businesswoman. First showing up on British displays in comedy sketch shows such as A Kick The Eighties, alongside Miriam Margolyes, Three of a Kind, with Lenny Henry, and Women on Top, with Dawn People from france and Jennifer Saunders, Tracey quickly founded herself as a comedic genius.