Songs of Enchantment, Ben Okri gifts twisty story of a mother

twisty story of a mother who must move backward through time to prevent tragedy from striking at the heart of her family

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Songs of Enchantment, Ben Okri gifts twisty story of a motherTriumphant a joyful and entertaining read (Guardian)"Passages of extraordinary beauty Okri paints a convincing surrealist picture" (Sunday Times)"Reading Okri felt to me like talking to someone who has a secret" (New Statesman)"Ben Okri writes beautifully a triumph of inspiration over the everyday. His prose is dense with pungent metaphor, sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy fraught with wild visions" (The Times)"A love story and an account of the