The Porcelain Doll is a family saga of survival and perseverance. Issy Brummel and her best friend, Rebekah Fr

This is the story of and old-fashioned porcelain doll, loved by many little girls over several generations. This doll is now very old and fragile, but also very wise.

When eight-year-old Kelsey goes to Pakistan so her mum and dad can help flood victims, she's miserable. It means missing out on the fun she had planned with her friends - including her birthday party. To ease her homesickness, Kelsey talks to her nanna on Skype. Together they create a story about a porcelain doll that nanna sends from Australia. As Kelsey waits for the doll to arrive they imagine the doll's adventures across Pakistan. With her new friend Shakila, Kelsey learns more about her new country and the people who live there. But how will the doll's quest end? Will Kelsey ever receive her nanna's gift?

'A masterful debut' - Ellen Alpsten, author of TsarinaIn a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land .... Rosie's only inheritance from her reclusive mother is a notebook full of handwritten fairy tales. But another story is lurking between the lines.Desperate for answers to questions that have tormented her for years, Rosie travels to Moscow and uncovers a devastating family history spanning the 1917 Revolution, Stalin's bloody purgesand beyond. At the heart of those answers stands a young noblewoman, as pretty as a porcelain doll, whose actions reverberate across the century .

The Porcelain Doll describes the captivating journey of Gabriella, an infant born in the late 1960s in Eastern Germany. A saleslady in Germany presented Gabriella’s mother with a surprise good-luck gift for her baby—a delicate figurine with deep, dark eyes. An unforgettable porcelain doll. For a typical young woman like Gabby, who grew up in the Communist-ruled country of Bulgaria, the thought of ever moving away from her homeland was beyond imagining. Unexpectedly, in high school, Gabby met and fell in love with Aaron, a young Bulgarian Jewish medical student. Although they parted ways after a brief romance, the two lovers always carried an undying love for each other. When Gabby emigrated to the USA years later to expand her career opportunities in journalism, and to experience life in a free country, she suddenly and unexpectedly met up with her old flame again.

More than mere playthings, Enchanted Dolls are elegantly sculpted and articulated works of art. Strikingly nude, engraved or adorned in opulent sculptural costumes of precious metals, gemstones and rare found objects, each doll intricately conveys an aspect of our humanity. As Marina says 'the reason I love making dolls is because it it's a multidisciplinary art form. To create a doll I get to do it all: sculpture, industrial design, painting, engraving, mold-making, drawing, metalwork, fashion and jewellery design. I want it all!'