This crazy world whirled around her men & women dwarfed by toys & puppets where even the birds are mechanical & the few human figures went masked... She was in the night once again & the doll was herself.' Melanie walks in the midnight garden wearing her mother's wedding dress; naked she climbs the apple tree in the black of the moon. Omens of disaster swiftly following transport Melanie from rural comfort to London to the Magic Toyshop. To the red-haired dancing Finn the gentle Francie dumb Aunt Margaret & Uncle Phillip. Francie plays curious night music Finn kisses fifteen-year-old Melanie in the mysterious ruins of the pleasure gardens. Brooding over all is Uncle Philip: Uncle Philip with blank eyes the colour of wet newspaper making puppets the size of men & clockwork roses. He loves his magic puppets but hates the love of man for woman boy for girl brother for sister...