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As well as being a prolific writer of fiction, Carter contributed many articles to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman, collected in Shaking a Leg.

She adapted a number of her short stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank.

Two of her fictions have been adapted for the silver screen: The Company of Wolves ( 1984 ) and The Magic Toyshop ( 1987 ).

She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders ( based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures ) and other works.

These neglected works, as well as her controversial television documentary, The Holy Family Album, are discussed in Charlotte Crofts ' book, Anagrams of Desire ( 2003 ).

Her novel Nights at the Circus won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for literature.