For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. 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. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories – equal parts wholesome and uncanny from the tantalizing witch's house in Hansel and Gretel to the man-shaped confection who one day decides to run as fast as he can – 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
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