Nutmeg
β Scribed by Goodin, Maria
- Book ID
- 110462187
- Publisher
- Legend Press
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 195 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781787198081
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Meg can't remember anything about her childhood but hercookery-obsessed, fairytale-telling mother has filled her in on allthe important details. Meg knows that her father was a Frenchchef who died in a tragic pastry-making accident and that as apremature baby she was put on a sunny windowsill to ripen.But, at eight years old, Meg rebels against this fictional life,determined to let logic rule every thought and deed.Now on the verge of a scientific career, Meg is called home. Hermother is ill and as Meg spends one last summer rediscoveringthe truth about her childhood, she is faced with a humblingdecision: to live in a cold harsh reality, or envelop herself in awonderful world of make-believe.
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