5/24/2023 0 Comments Gingerbread by helen oyeyemi![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Įndlessly surprising and satisfying, written with Helen Oyeyemi's inimitable style and imagination, Gingerbread is a true feast for the reader. 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. Susie Boyt is author of ‘Love & Fame’ (Virago) Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe. For one thing, their home is a gold-painted seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. Gingerbread, by Helen Oyeyemi, Picador, RRP£16.99, 304 pages. Perdita Lee and her mother Harriet may appear your average schoolgirl and working mother but they are anything but. Influenced 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. 'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam' - Ali Smith, author of How to be Both ![]()
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