Rebel Voices: Disruptive Stories from Trailblazing Women - a new Puffin Classics collection
celebrating International Women's Day 2023 To me writing was pure pleasure. It thrilled me
to be able to escape the horrors of my daily life in such a simple way. When I wrote I forgot
that I was the unwanted daughter who caused her mother's death. I could be anybody I wished to
be. When her mother dies shortly after her birth lonely Adeline is marked as 'bad luck' and
treated as an outcast by her own family shown kindness only by her grandfather and Aunt Baba
who encourage her to follow her dreams. Adeline strives to win her father's acceptance by
excelling in school but instead discovers an escape in the friendships of her classmates and
her talent for writing. For the first time Adeline allows herself to dream of a real future as
a writer and yearns to study in England with her brother - but it is a future she will have to
fight with every ounce of strength she has to achieve. Chinese Cinderella is Adeline Yen
Mah's true story of survival and self-acceptance during her childhood as an unwanted daughter
and how she overcame her past to believe in a better future. Rebel Voices is a new six-part
Puffin Classics collection of strikingly designed highly collectible books written by female
authors and celebrating courage rebellion strength and inspiration
