About The Book
Helen Oyeyemi is the author of several highly acclaimed novels, including White is for Witching (which won a Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Fox and Boy, Snow, Bird. Helen has been included in Granta's Best Young British Novelists.
About The Author
A remarkable collection of short stories from one of our most gifted writers, Helen Oyeyemi.
'Pure, sensuous enjoyment' The Times
The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another.
The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day.
It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.
About The BookHelen Oyeyemi is the author of several highly acclaimed novels, including White is for Witching (which won a Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Fox and Boy, Snow, Bird. Helen has been included in Granta's Best Young British Novelists. About The AuthorA remarkable collection of short stories from one of our most gifted writers, Helen Oyeyemi.'Pure, sensuous enjoyment' The TimesThe stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another.The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.