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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.

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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.

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Oyeyemi´s imagination is impressive and vast . . . Her ability to conceive her stories on such a grand scale is what makes her work so magnetic, sucking the reader into any number of netherworlds. Perhaps it´s this ability to consume and be consumed that keeps Oyeyemi constantly, and prolifically, at work. Guardian

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Oyeyemi, Helen
Helen Oyeyemi is the author of The Icarus Girl, The Opposite House, White is for Witching (which won the Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Fox, Boy, Snow, Bird, Gingerbread and the short story collection What is Not Yours is Not Yours. In 2013, Helen was included in Granta´s Best of Young British Novelists.

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