The Bone Dragon

Product Description

Evie's shattered ribs have been a secret for the last four years. Now she has found the strength to tell her adoptive parents, & the physical traces of her past are fixed
- the only remaining signs a scar on her side & 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 & encouragement in roaming dreams of smoke & 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. & 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 & fairy tale, The Bone Dragon explores the fragile boundaries between real life & fantasy, & the darkest corners of the human mind.