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The Bone Dragon (Paperback)
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The Bone Dragon (Paperback)

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Paperback 320 Pages / Published: 13/02/2014
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Synopsis
Evie's shattered ribs have been a secret for the last four years. Now she has found the strength to tell her adoptive parents, and the physical traces of her past are fixed - the only remaining signs a scar on her side and a fragment of bone taken home from the hospital, which her uncle Ben helps her to carve into a dragon as a sign of her strength. Soon this ivory talisman begins to come to life at night, offering wisdom and encouragement in roaming dreams of smoke and moonlight that come to feel ever more real. As Evie grows stronger there remains one problem her new parents can't fix for her: a revenge that must be taken. And it seems that the Dragon is the one to take it. This subtly unsettling novel is told from the viewpoint of a fourteen-year-old girl damaged by a past she can't talk about, in a hypnotic narrative that, while giving increasing insight, also becomes increasingly unreliable. A blend of psychological thriller and fairy tale, The Bone Dragon explores the fragile boundaries between real life and fantasy, and the darkest corners of the human mind.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571295623
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 250 g
Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 20 mm
Edition: Main

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“Please read this book”

I confess to feeling a certain sense of trepidation in writing this review for fear that my words will not do the book justice. To put it simply, this book has that ‘something special’ factor. From the first few pages... More

Paperback edition
15th September 2013
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“An outstanding and heartwrenching adventure”

What a wonderful, magical and touching book.
Evie is a character worth remembering forever.

Paperback edition
8th June 2013
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“Unusual and thought provoking”

After surgery to mend her broken ribs, Evie returns home with part of a rib that she carves into a tiny, sinuous, winding dragon - a talisman of strength and fire to hold onto. But when the dragon comes alive at... More

Paperback edition
22nd February 2014
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