![]() And when it does, this, too, will be unmentionable… Perfect for fans of THE HANDMAID’S TALE, VOX, and THE POWER. Whether anyone likes it or not, the Mass Dragoning is coming. Alex, growing from young girl to fiercely independent teenager, is desperate for answers, but doesn’t get any. ![]() But she is a ghostly shadow of her former self, and with scars across her body – wide, deep burns, as though she had been attacked by a monster who breathed fire. Then Alex’s mother disappears, and reappears a week later, one quiet Tuesday, with no explanation whatsoever as to where she has been. And Alex doesn’t see the little old lady after that. In her next-door neighbour’s garden, in the spot where the old lady usually sits, is a huge dragon, an astonished expression on its face before it opens its wings and soars away across the rooftops. ![]() Alex Green is four years old when she first sees a dragon. This novel imagines a global historical event, the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of women worldwide transformed into dragons, and flew away, leaving behind fractured families and bewildered friends. ![]() When Women Were Dragons brings the heat to misogyny with glorious imagination and talon-sharp prose.’ – Bonnie Garmus, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRYIn a world where girls and women are taught to be quiet, the dragons inside them are about to be set free … In this timely and timeless speculative novel, set in 1950s America, Kelly Barnhill exposes a world that wants to keep girls and women small – and examines what happens when they rise up. Our culture has had a minor fascination with the notion of dragons, whether they existed in our history, or as creatures of fantasy. Book Summary ‘A soaring coming-of-age novel.’- THE OBSERVER’Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny. ![]()
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