Financial Times- Gingerbread
Gingerbread is Helen Oyemi’s sixth novel teeming with fantasy, magical realism and folklore. The story centres on one night where, after finding her daughter Perdita half poisoned by gingerbread in a suspected suicide attempt, Harriet tells the story of her tough past and who Perdita’s father might be in an attempt to ‘talk life back into her’.
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