Kestrell

I'm currently on an Angela Carter binge, because the entire time I was death-marching through Eugenides’s _The Marriage Plot_ (which struck me as a "St. Elmo's Fire" for literature snobs), I kept thinking, "Well, he's no Angela Carter." Carter is still one of the few writers who managed to write novels which featured subversive female protagonists while also being dark, funny, literate, and original.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/25/card-from-angela-carter-review?CMP=twt_gu