Not a book I can recommend in all good conscience now.Īn earlier version of Love of Seven Dolls first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in October 1950, called The Man Who Hated People. However, on a re-read, I am upset by some of the episodes, and I am a little shocked at my own unthinking acceptance of them only twenty years ago. I used to consider this as one of my favourite Gallico books. You find yourself thinking, as Mouche does, of the puppets as individuals, and completely forgetting that they are only puppets. The story is about her relationship with the seven puppets and their grim puppetmaster, Capitaine Coq, and what happens when she joins their travelling show. She then meets Reynard the fox, Gigi, Alifanfaron, Dr Duclos, Madame Muscat and Monsieur Nicholas. It turns out to be the voice of a glove puppet, called Carrot Top. A young girl called Mouche is about to throw herself into the Seine, when her attention is attracted by a voice.
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