Sweetness in the Skin

Sweetness in the SkinCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781405956789 Format: B format paperback Year: 2025 Publisher: Penguin UK Description: A coming of age celebration of food, family and finding your voice, 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

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781405956789
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2025
Publisher: Penguin UK


Description:
A coming-of-age celebration of food, family and finding your voice, 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. But 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?