About the Book: Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi, the prize-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What is Not Yours
is Not Yours, returns with a bewitching and inventive novel about motherhood,
family legacy and . . . gingerbread.
A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam-Ali Smith
Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem
just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there
are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one
thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly
verbal vegetation. And then theres the gingerbread they