Travel Light – Naomi Mitchison (1952)

A half-bear, half-human girl wanders through Norse mythology, befriending dragons, fighting kings, and learning how not to belong.

Mitchison was one of the first to write feminist fantasy — decades before it had a name. Her story is brief, bright, and quietly radical, about survival through freedom, not power.

It reads like a fairy tale written by someone who’s seen the end of empires.