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Gingerbread

Helen Oyeyemi

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      ‘A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam’ – Ali Smith, author of How to be BothInfluenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories - equal parts wholesome and uncanny - beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Perdita Lee and her mother Harriet may appear your average schoolgirl and working mother but they are anything but. For one thing, their home is a gold-painted seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread. As we follow the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work and wealth, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that holds a constant value . . . Endlessly surprising and satisfying, written with Helen Oyeyemi's inimitable style and imagination, Gingerbread is a true feast for the reader.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Helen Oyeyemi EAN: 9781447299424 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 216 g HEIGHT: 196 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Literary WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Family life fiction
      ‘A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam’ – Ali Smith, author of How to be BothInfluenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories - equal parts wholesome and uncanny - beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Perdita Lee and her mother Harriet may appear your average schoolgirl and working mother but they are anything but. For one thing, their home is a gold-painted seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread. As we follow the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work and wealth, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that holds a constant value . . . Endlessly surprising and satisfying, written with Helen Oyeyemi's inimitable style and imagination, Gingerbread is a true feast for the reader.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Helen Oyeyemi EAN: 9781447299424 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 216 g HEIGHT: 196 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Literary WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Family life fiction

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      Helen Oyeyemi is the author of The Icarus Girl, The Opposite House, White is for Witching (which won the Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Fox and the short-story collection What is Not Yours is Not Yours. In 2013, Helen was included in Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

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