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Bold, beautiful and spiky, Angela Readman’s stories are both magical and real. Following her acclaimed debut 'Don’t Try This at Home', in this new collection, she approaches the fairy tale with a scalpel. 'The Girls are Pretty Crocodiles' reads like a love letter to girlhood and a ransom note to all the fairy tales we have been told. In her prize-winning work 'The Story Never Told', an illiterate woman sells fairy tales for a book she knows will never have her name on the cover. In 'What’s Inside a Girl', a class takes lessons on dating invisible girls.
Dark, funny and surreal, these stories explore, challenge and ultimately transform the traditional fairy tale narrative. Women learn to be origami, climb into swan skins, feed wolves, flip burgers and snog kelpies. In dazzling prose that remains matter-of-fact, these tales take to task the happy endings we have been sold.
Otherworldly, yet down to earth, 'The Girls are Pretty Crocodiles' discovers the hidden voice in the stories we know and reveals the magic of working-class lives. These stories have teeth.
Genre: Fantasy
Dark, funny and surreal, these stories explore, challenge and ultimately transform the traditional fairy tale narrative. Women learn to be origami, climb into swan skins, feed wolves, flip burgers and snog kelpies. In dazzling prose that remains matter-of-fact, these tales take to task the happy endings we have been sold.
Otherworldly, yet down to earth, 'The Girls are Pretty Crocodiles' discovers the hidden voice in the stories we know and reveals the magic of working-class lives. These stories have teeth.
Genre: Fantasy
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