Gingerbread

‘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 ...

‘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 gingerb