Name: Yellowcake
ISBN: 9781742374789

Margo Lanagan

Yellowcake brings together another ten short stories from this extraordinarily talented writer - each of them fiercely original and quietly heartbreaking.

Yellowcake

Tijana Kovac

Yellowcake was a very odd book. I found the stories really strange and had to force myself to finish it and was relieved because I didn't have to read it anymore. The endings of the short stories and the overall plots of them were hard to follow (for me anyway). The strangest one was 'heads' which from what I gathered was about a boy who measured the circumference of dead people's heads!
There was only one story out of the ten that I kind of liked but was still a bit odd 'the golden shroud' which was a Rapunzel-esque story which was actually alright, but I just don't like Margo's type of writing. It's just not my cup of tea.