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Sweetness in the Skin
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Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson is a coming-of-age celebration of food, family, and finding your voice, perfect for fans of The Girl with the Louding Voice. Fourteen-year-old Pumkin Patterson lives in a two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her devoted grandmother, her beloved Aunt...
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Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson is a coming-of-age celebration of food, family, and finding your voice, perfect for fans of The Girl with the Louding Voice.
Fourteen-year-old Pumkin Patterson lives in a two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her devoted grandmother, her beloved Aunt Sophie, and a mother who could not care less about her. When her conniving estranged father shows up, Pumkin's only real escape is baking. While making sweet potato pudding and apple turnovers, she can forget the fighting at home.
When Aunt Sophie is offered the chance to move to France, she promises to send for Pumkin as soon as she can afford to. However, when things take a turn for the worse in Pumkin's household, she's determined to raise the money herself. Her mother is determined to make her stay, but will her friends, neighbours, and talent for baking be her escape?
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781405956789
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 January 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 321g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Ishi Robinson was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She has lived in Bern, Toronto, Rome, London and now lives in Berlin with her Czech husband. Her first published work was a short story in Jamaica's national newspaper when she was eleven years old. At seventeen, she sent a letter to her father from Switzerland that he thought was so funny he sent it to the other national newspaper, which snagged her a weekly column on teenage life in Kingston. She also previously wrote a weekly column on life as an expat in Rome for a now defunct online magazine. She got back into fiction writing in Berlin, from where she has published short stories in several online publications and one anthology. Sweetness in the Skin is her first novel.
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