NUTMEG MARIA GOODIN
PUBLISHED 1ST AUGUST 2018 IN PAPERBACK BY LEGEND PRESS
Meg can’t remember anything about her childhood but her cookery-obsessed, fairytale-telling mother has filled her in on all the important details. Meg knows that her father was a French chef who died in a tragic pastry making accident and that a premature 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. Her mother is ill and as Meg spends one last summer rediscovering the truth about her childhood, she is faced with a humbling decision to live in a cold harsh reality, or envelop herself in a wonderful world of make-believe.
MY REVIEW
Wow! what a beautiful unusual story. I felt really sorry for Meg whose mother told her so many fictional stories, that Meg naturally believed were true. When Meg wrote about things in her school books or put her hands up to answer questions, the class laughed at her ridiculous things that she wrote about and what she thought things meant in French. It wasn’t Meg’s fault that she got things wrong in class as her head had been filled with too many wild, false stories. The book Nutmeg is a female fiction tale, that is about power of food, family and fantasy. The novel Nutmeg was developed from a short story that won the City of Derby Short Story Competition.
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