An award-winning, magical contemporary novel about three teenage girls whose exploration of fantasy threatens everything they know of reality.
A YA-crossover thriller following three teenage girls as their developing bodies become objects of abuse from their male classmates. Drinking the nectar from a strange flower, they are transformed into boys, but what have they gained? And what have they lost?
"Without doubt a worthy and interesting August Prize Winner." - Aftonbladet
"Surprise of the year: Girls Lost /? / Completely unexpected and well executed." - Smålandsposten
"Brave fantasy with existential questions /? / Well done to Jessica Schiefauer for not choosing the simple way." - Sydsvenskan
"The style is unadorned, with powerful metaphors. The language is hard and soft; aware of the ferocity of a flower." - Dagens Nyheter
"In a glowing and contemporary saga about love, death and rebirth [Jessica Schiefauer] helps her three teenage Orlando characters free themselves and explore the limits of the self. Together, and on their own, the three characters explore their genders, their bodies and their desires, beyond established boundaries. During the day they are "the girls": the maladjusted, the exposed, the constantly observed. When night falls they become "the boys": the anonymous observers. /? /...the borders of existence are - and must be permitted to be - so much larger than the volume restricted by the skin." - Expressen