Tooth And Claw (2004)
by Walton, Jo
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In a world of dragons, a dying patriarch's will starts a dispute among his children. His son the parson wants the family to eat the body of the dead, as tradition says, to gain his strength, but his greedy son-in-law takes far more than his share, and the consequences spread.
The children must find their way through the courts, the church and the marriage market, in a society where the manners of a Victorian novel are the rules of life. Jo Walton's novel of manners, in which everyone is a dragon, won the World Fantasy Award.
About the author
Walton, Jo
Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She is best known for the fantasy novel Among Others, which won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012, and Tooth and Claw, a Victorian-era novel with dragons which won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. Other works by Walton include the Small Change series, in which she blends alternate history with the cozy mystery genre, comprising Farthing, Ha'penny and Half a Crown. Her fantasy novel Lifelode won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award, and her alternate history My Real Children received the 2015 Tiptree Award. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Walton
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