For fans of Kate Atkinson, Barbara Trapido, and Alice Hoffman-the magical story of an unconventional family in the English suburbs
Eve has grown up in a decidedly unconventional family, one of seven multi-racial children with different fathers and a mother named Victory who raises them her own way. When Eve is eight, Victory calls upon her hidden talent-second sight, 'the ability to harness chance.' It's a gift that often brings Victory forebodings of disaster, but it also wins her first prize in a cereal-box competition. The rag-tag family leaves its trailer home for a house in a leafy London suburb: The Cornflake House. The neighbors' consternation at their arrival has comic, then disastrous, consequences.
Now Eve is a young woman in prison. How she got there, and how her amazing mother planned long ago to get her out, makes for a dramatic and utterly original novel of family and magic.
"Told with a fresh-faced innocence bound to win the author fans on her first time out."
Kirkus Reviews
"The author's light touch and slightly off-center plot add to the book's appeal."
Dallas Morning News
"A lively account of a raggle-taggle gypsy family....Gregory's slapstick delivery and colorful language create an Alice in Wonderland sense of the surreal."
