"Grudova is Angela Carter's natural inheritor. Her style is effortlessly spare and wonderfully seductive. Read her! Love her! She is sincerely strange - a glittering literary gem in a landscape awash with paste and glue and artificial settings." --Nicola Barker, author of Darkmans

"One of Britain's best young short story writers... eerie... festers in glorious style... there's nothing vanilla in the dark of the Paradise, and even when the corporate takeover comes, complete with managerial drone, it all feels smooth and unearthly - an allegory for lost stories, youth and time. - The Telegraph

"There's a strange, tortured beauty to Children of Paradise... A magnificently spiky commentary on the detrimental nature of work hierarchies and zero-hours contracts. - Guardian

"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

"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." --Sinead Gleeson, author, Constellations

"Gloriously disgusting, bloody, alluring - an ode to a vanishing world of filthy, gaudy independent cinemas and the curious souls who work there. One for any fan of their local fleapit. - Helen McClory, author, The Goldblum Variations

"Has already garnered comparisons to Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Leonora Carrington, Ben Marcus, and Franz Kafka. To this list let me add another name: George Orwell." --Harper's Magazineon The Doll's Alphabet

"The comic grotesqueries that emerge from this collection owe a bit to Dickens, Kafka and Heinrich Hoffmann's "Der Struwwelpeter," but their total effect is delightfully unclassifiable.... The world it inhabits - droll, inexplicable and even beautiful in its slovenly fashion - is unlike any other I've encountered." --Wall Street Journal on The Doll's Alphabet