I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself . . . ' New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve. Written in 1977 against the backdrop of second wave feminism, Angela Carter writes The Passion of New Eve . A darkly satirical novel which comments on the notions of power, sexual identity and gender. Carter herself describes it as ‘anti-mythic...I conceived it as a feminist tract about the social construction of femininity, amongst other things.’ In Angela Carter: Of Wolves and Women (an incredible documentary on Carter’s work), she says ‘I wanted to ...