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The Cornflake House

Author Deborah Gregory, Gregory
Publisher St. Martin's Press
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ISBN / ASIN0312202903
ISBN-139780312202903
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Sales Rank9,492,155
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Eve has grown up in a decidedly unconventional family, one of seven multi-racial children with different fathers and a mother who raises them her own way. It is a family without men, a family of children whose various talents are always at odds with the rest of society.

When Eve is eight, her mother Victory calls upon her own special, rarely used talent-second sight, "the ability to harness chance." This rare gift brings Victory forebodings of disaster, but it also wins her first prize in a cereal-box competition. Suddenly the rag-tag family is leaving its trailer home and moving into a brand-new house in a leafy London suburb: The Cornflake House. The consternation among residents at their arrival has comic, then disastrous, consequences.

Now Eve is a young woman in trouble. How she got there, and how her amazing mother planned long ago to help her, makes for a dramatic and utterly original novel of family and magic.