'If you read one book this year let it be Top Doll.' Malika Booker When reclusive billionaire
Huguette Clark dies age 104 she leaves behind a suite of New York apartments a meticulously
kept California mansion a Monet and her vast collection of antique dolls. Having barely been
outside for 50 years the elusive Clark spoke to few - in this highly unreliable
semi-fictional miniature epic the dolls tell all. Theirs is a tale that takes us from their
lavish Park Avenue home back in time to the slave plantations of Virginia and the palaces of
Imperial Japan via the addictive hedonism of 1930s queer LA. Joyfully irreverent Top Doll is a
story of love betrayal Barbies and ultimately what it means to be human. 'Wild queer and
unstoppably inventive . . . McCarthy Woolf possesses a rare uncanny power in prose and lyric .
. . This book is poignantly absurd and unsentimentally tender' Kit Fan 'An immersive playful
multi-voiced time-travelling story. . . beautiful surprising painful and yes humourous.
Woolf has written a book that is truly worthy of the term novel Raymond Antrobus
