{"product_id":"girls-are-pretty-crocodiles","title":"Girls Are Pretty Crocodiles","description":"\u003cp\u003eBold, beautiful and spiky, Angela Readman’s stories are both magical and real. Following her acclaimed debut \u003ci\u003eDon’t Try This at Home\u003c\/i\u003e, in this new collection, she approaches the fairy tale with a scalpel. \u003ci\u003eThe Girls are Pretty Crocodiles\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOtherworldly, yet down to earth, \u003ci\u003eThe Girls are Pretty Crocodiles\u003c\/i\u003e discovers the hidden voice in the stories we know and reveals the magic of working-class lives. These stories have teeth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Angela Readman’s stories have a compelling intimacy and gorgeous imagery, and are often deeply moving – highly recommended reading.” \u003cb\u003eAlison Moore, author of Booker-shortlisted \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Lighthouse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Angela Readman’s subtly dark stories rip the covers from the everyday. She turns its innocents and introverts inside-out before us, meanwhile exposing secret rituals and Chinese-whispery legends from all our suffocating and self-contained neighbourhoods. Throughout this new collection, the other Angela – Carter – hangs on Readman’s shoulder as she creates an eerie new folklore for fraught times. These are the stories we always knew existed but were never brave enough to tell, even to ourselves.” \u003cb\u003eAshley Stokes, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGigantic, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnsung Stories, 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A poetic recontextualising of fairy tales and folklore, \u003ci\u003eThe Girls Are Pretty Crocodiles\u003c\/i\u003e manages to be both playful and dangerous, often in the same sentence. Readman deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Kirsty Logan and Marina Warner, as one of the natural successors to Angela Carter.” \u003cb\u003eDan Coxon, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOnly The Broken Remain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and editor of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis Dreaming Isle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313294483838,"sku":"NW9781912436873","price":10.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781912436873.jpg?v=1778591918","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/girls-are-pretty-crocodiles","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}