Little: A Novel

"Picking up on the same themes of bodies and objects as his Iremonger trilogy, Edward Carey’s Little is a tenderly macabre fictional memoir written in the voice of Anne Marie Grosholtz, the woman who would become Madame Tussaud. From being orphaned at the age of 6 and apprenticed to a maker of wax models, to living in Versailles as the art tutor to a princess in the months before the French Revolution, her life is full of deep sadness mixed with fabulous incident, and compassionate insight punctuated by the author’s whimsical illustrations."