The Dolls Alan Sillitoe drug-dealing and knife crime

drug-dealing and knife crime

Julie Walters

Times Literary Supplement

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The Dolls Alan Sillitoe drug-dealing and knife crimeStories from a world both fantastically strange and gruellingly familiar where flight, ruin, prejudice, and disinformation soar in an irresistible, susurrant fugue of human longing In the four stories that make up The Dolls, characters are plagued by unexplained illnesses, oblique, human made disasters and environmental losses. A big sister descends into the family basement. Another sister refuses her younger brother. A third sister with memory loss