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Jenny (Reading Envy)
This is a nice story of a family living in Jamaica, but it is to its detriment that I happened to read The White Woman on the Green Bicycle first. Nothing could be quite as compelling or vibrant after that! I also wish this had included more information on Lorna's life, because I think that would have put more of her mother's life into a perspective.

As far as culinary inspiration, I need to track down a recipe for a gratto!

"The girls had a particular fondness for the small, buttery loaves called
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