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1472261208

Delicacy : a memoir about cake and death.

Author: Wix, Katy.

Publication year: 2022

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Classification: 920.WIX

Publisher: London : Headline, 2022.

ISBN: 9781472261205 (pbk.) : 9.99

Notes:

Originally published: 2021.

From award-winning comedian and writer Katy Wix comes 'Delicacy' - a different kind of memoir from an astonishing new voice. Twenty-one snapshots of a life - some staccato, raw and shocking, some expansive, meditative, and profound, underpinned with moments of startling humour that shatter the darkness - all beginning with a single memory. A memory of cake. The sickly royal icing marked the moment Katy found her voice. The madeira cake was the sun her group therapy sessions orbited. The 'missing cake' from a lost holiday has never let go. The Bara brith eaten in hospital after a life-altering car crash was as tough as the metal that hit her. The supermarket rock cake was where she 'practised wanting'.