About the Author

Gaby Wood was born in 1971. She read French at Cambridge University and is the author of a short work of non-fiction. The Smallest of All Persons Mentioned in the Records of Littleness. She is now a staff writer on the Observer. This is her first full-length book.

Reviews

Living Dolls tells the remarkable true history of how ingenious inventors and magicians laboured for centuries to simulate life mechanically.