A review by georgina_bawden
Cwen by Alice Albinia

5.0

This was interesting and sort of hard to describe. Not what I expected. Kind of a reverse Handmaid's Tale, about an island archipelago where a woman dies leaving her wealth to a local women's charity and her granddaughter. Her bypassed (and entitled) sons force an inquiry into Unfair Female Advantage in the Islands and it unfolds that their mother was running a kind of feminist social experiment. Well written, thoughtful and of an inclusive kind of feminism, writing towards a "gynotopia". Definitely different!