Delicacy

“My mother's hopes for me were that I would always be happy and thin. My hope for her was that she would never leave me.”

I like Katy Wix's TV work and enjoyed this memoir, insofar as you can enjoy a book that's sometimes very funny but mostly very sad. She writes with wit and articulacy about body image, disordered eating, depression and bereavement, through the framework of different significant cakes from her life. Chapters 11, 12 and 18 are tearjerkers. I listened to the audiobook, some sections of which don't work as well as they would on the page, but which is overall wonderfully read by the author.