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From the Bestselling Author of The Boy Who Drew Monsters and The Stolen Child Comes a Suspenseful Tale of Romance and Enchantment.
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by the Richmond Times-Dispatch
In Keith Donohue's Motion of Puppets, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open, in the Old City of Québec. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside.
The next morning, Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins a dual odyssey: of a husband determined to find his wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.
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KEITH DONOHUE is an American novelist, the author of the national bestseller The Stolen Child, Angels of Destruction, Centuries of June, and The Boy Who Drew Monsters. He also writes reviews for The Washington Post. Donohue has a PhD in English with a specialization in modern Irish literature and wrote the introduction to Flann O’Brien: The Complete Novels. He lives in Maryland.
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"An engrossing novel of love, fancy, and enchantment." Shelf Awareness
"Full of glorious detail." New York Journal of Books
"A masterpiece of psychological horror...Intricately plotted, absorbing, and suspenseful, this is a moving, modern story set in what feels like a fairy-tale world but is actually terrifyingly realistic." Booklist (starred review)
An inventive and suspenseful story told from an original perspective, Donahue s novel examines how refusing to embrace the present and struggling to escape unavoidable circumstances can alter one s life forever. Publishers Weekly
"At once old and new, borrowed and original, The Motion of Puppets disdains both genre and mainstream expectations to turn readers attention to the permeable boundary between life and its mimicry. The Washington Post
Poetic. The Charlotte Observer
Think of it as Toy Story, if it had been written by Stephen King .Donohue is adept at creating brilliantly imagined worlds that offer both menace and allure. The Motion of Puppets is cunningly strange and hypnotic, and you re likely to find yourself drawn into its seductive peculiarities .It seems merely like a magically effortless and enchanting piece of storytelling. But don t be surprised if you notice a twinge of existential dread begin to build after you ve finished the last page. Richmond Times-Dispatch
"An engrossing novel of love, fancy, and enchantment." Shelf Awareness
The Motion of Puppets is the only novel I know to have fulfilled Robert Aickman s famous statement about great supernatural tales, that they are the fiction most closely approaching poetry. Keith Donohue (The Stolen Child) has crafted a perfect fable based on the mysterious attraction of the puppet theater. Building upon the archaic superstition (exploited in Toy Story) that puppets have their own emotional lives, the author takes one more magnificent step and ties in the devastating myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Every part of this novel hums with mythic power, pulling on every heartstring. BookPage
"Full of glorious detail." New York Journal of Books
"A masterpiece of psychological horror...Intricately plotted, absorbing, and suspenseful, this is a moving, modern story set in what feels like a fairy-tale world but is actually terrifyingly realistic." Booklist (starred review)
An inventive and suspenseful story told from an original perspective, Donahue s novel examines how refusing to embrace the present and struggling to escape unavoidable circumstances can alter one s life forever. Publishers Weekly
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