When Women Were Dragons

Produktbeschreibung

Perfect for fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE, VOX, and THE POWER.<BR><BR>In a world where girls and women are taught to be quiet, the dragons inside them are about to be set free ...<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>Alex Green is four years old when she first sees a dragon. 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.<BR><BR>And Alex doesn't see the little old lady after that. No one mentions her. It's as if she's never existed.<BR><BR>Then Alex's mother disappears, and reappears a week later, one quiet Tuesday, with no explanation whatsoever as to where she has been. 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.<BR><BR>Alex, growing from young girl to fiercely independent teenager, is desperate for answers, but doesn't get any.<BR><BR>Whether anyone likes it or not, the Mass Dragoning is coming. And nothing will be the same after that. Everything is about to change, forever.<BR><BR>And when it does, this, too, will be unmentionable...