Gingerbread
Oyeyemi, Helen2020
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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 there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it's very popular in Druhástrana, the far-away land of Harriet Lee's early youth. In fact, the world's truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread is Harriet's charismatic childhood friend, Gretel Kercheval - a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met. Years later, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother's long-lost friend, it prompts a new telling of Harriet's story, as well as a reunion or two.
Main title:
Gingerbread / Helen Oyeyemi.
Author:
Oyeyemi, Helen, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2020.
Collation:
290 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781447299424 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.9'2GAF
Local class:
FT PbkFICFAFPBK
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2621026
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