Helen Oyeyemi

The Icarus Girl

by Helen Oyeyemi

Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half...

The Opposite House

by Helen Oyeyemi

Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate...

White is for Witching: A Novel

by Helen Oyeyemi

“Miranda is at home—homesick, home sick ...”

As a child, Miranda Silver developed pica, a rare eating disorder that causes its victims to consume nonedible substances. The death of her mother when Miranda...

The Icarus Girl

by Helen Oyeyemi

Jessamy “Jess” Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits...

Mr. Fox

by Helen Oyeyemi

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction

One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists

Fairytale romances end with a wedding. The fairytales that don't get more complicated. In this book, celebrated...