in her first novel, The Naked Season. Escape Routes for Beginners (2004) In her second novel, Kira explores her narrative through the eyes of 13-year-old Rita Mae. Rita questions her parents toxic marriage and wishes to escape the prison-island she resides on. Throughout the novel, Rita uncovers secrets about her family's past. Escape Route for Beginners landed Cochrane as the youngest author nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction, at 27 years old. Cosmopolitan calls it, "Inventive and deliciously dark." All the Rebel Women (2013) As a supporter of fourth wave feminist movements, Cochrane constructs All the Rebel Women as a tribute to those who are promoting change. In 2013, The Guardian posted an extract of the short novel and summarizes it as such:"Kira Cochrane's 'All the Rebel Women' collects the voices making up a new fourth wave of feminism. In this exclusive extract, she looks at the role humour has to play in the movement." Modern Women: 52 Pioneers (2017) Modern Women is a tribute to women who have paved the way for women's equality today. Cochrane immortalizes their legacies with visual and textual elements throughout. In the interview with The Heroine Collective, Kira explains her motivations for Modern Women:"I wanted each woman to be someone who shifted the world's sense of what might be possible for women." Fourth-wave feminism Cochrane's All the Rebel Women is solely based on the rise of fourth-wave feminism: the current era of feminism that is heightened by the use of social media and strives for intersectionality in society. The fourth wave focuses on supporting movements such as body positivity and sex-positivity, as well as protecting the rights of the LGBTQ community. Cochrane began her research and reporting of the fourth wave in 2013, upon collecting information for All the Rebel Women. In 2013, Cochrane wrote an article for The Guardian, titled "The fourth wave of feminism: meet the rebel women." Cochrane says:"Welcome to the fourth wave of feminism. What's happening now feels like something new again. It's defined by technology: tools that are allowing women to build a strong, popular, reactive movement online. Just how popular is sometimes slightly startling.""As 2013 unfolded, it became impossible to ignore the rumble of feminist campaigners, up and down the country.""But bald attempts to silence women only made the movement larger and louder. They convinced those who had never thought about misogyny before that it was clearly