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I'm looking for stories that centre on characters who are sisters (preferably a pair, preferably adults), where the character relationship is a good portrayal of sisterhood, in a way that's about closeness (or distance, or a mixture of the two) rather than rivalry/jealousy (a bit of that would be ok, just not too much). I've been trying to think of stories about sisters - there are the fairy-taley portrayals of good/pretty/clever vs. bad/ugly/dull sister, which are so not what I'm after, or protagonists whose sisters exist as foils or plot devices. I'd like there to be a sense of equal partnership. (I mean, the desire to find this sort of thing came to me during an episode of Supernatural, when I started wishing I could see the parallel universe version in which the Winchesters are girls).

There's probably loads that I haven't thought of. I'd prefer genre, something quite fun and adventurous, but recs of any kind would be lovely.

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Kate Crackernuts is a YA novel about two girls who are stepsisters. It's a retelling of a fairy tale, so it has malevolent and powerful witches, but it's centered on the two girls: how they met and became friends before they became related, how despite the Wicked Stepmother's efforts to favor one over the other they loyally backed each other up, and how they went off on an adventure and rescued themselves plus a boy.

I seem to recall the author was a scholar of old Scottish dialect and folk tales; the story is told in a heavy dialect that does take some getting used to. And it's out of print, so you might have to check several libraries or used-book shops. But I liked it.