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Sweetness in the Skin

Sweetness in the Skin

by Ishi Robinson

Publisher Michael Joseph

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  • UK First Edition, First Printing


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About the book

Pumkin Patterson dreams of a life beyond her Jamaican hometown. But what we dream of and where we belong aren’t always the same thing…


This heartfelt and uplifting story is for fans of The Girl With the Louding Voice and The Reading List

'An engaging coming-of-age tale' 
THE TIMES

'A story of uplifting love and joyful Jamaican-recipes' 
STYLIST

'Will linger in your heart long after the final page. An absolute must-read' 
ABI DARÉ, author of The Girl With the Louding Voice

‘A delightful story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth’ 
CHARMAINE WILKERSON, author of Black Cake

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For Pumkin Patterson, family is complicated.

There’s her mother Paulette, who ignores her. There’s her beloved Auntie Sophie, who her mother resents. And there’s her grandmother, who has always played favourites.
Whenever tensions rise, Pumkin retreats to the kitchen - creating the Jamaican bread puddings and coconut drops that have always given her comfort.

When Sophie moves to France for work, she vows to send for her niece in one year’s time. But in order to follow her aunt, Pumkin has a mountain to climb. Starting with the question of how she’ll manage to escape her mother, and make enough money to get to Marseille.

Inspired by her skills in the kitchen, Pumkin turns to her community in the hope that she can sell enough sweet treats to bake her way out. But when her school and her mother discover her plan, everything she’s worked so hard for may slip through her fingers . . .

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'A dazzling coming-of-age novel set in the 1990s with an unforgettable heroine' 
RED

'An ode to the families we create for ourselves . . . Pumkin is a wonderful main character you are willing to succeed' 
GLAMOUR

'A treat from start to finish' 
SARAH HAYWOOD, author of The Cactus

'I read this book with my heart in my mouth, hoping all of Pumkin's dreams would come true' 
BREANNE MC IVOR, author of The God of Good Looks

‘A tender exploration of familial love, both the family you’re born to, and the one you find along the way’ 
CHARLENE CARR, author of Hold My Girl

'A story so rich and resonant I never wanted it to end' 
JULIETTA HENDERSON, author of The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman

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About the Author

Ishi Robinson

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 Skinis her first novel.

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