GINGERBREAD

Perdita Lee and her mother Harriet may appear your average schoolgirl and working mother but they are anything but. For one thing, t heir home is a gold-painted seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread. As we fol low the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work and wealth, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that holds a constant value . . .Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories - equal parts wholes ome and ...[Read more]