![]() ![]() ![]() Then Alex’s mother disappears, and reappears a week later, one quiet Tuesday, with no explanation whatsoever as to where she has been.īut 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. 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. 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.Īlex Green is four years old when she first sees a dragon. ![]() ‘Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny. ![]()
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