Delicacy: A memoir about cake and death

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Each chapter orbits a different kind of cake, and is given a pleasantly odd title, like ‘Low-fat Cakes, Or, Being Thin in Capitalist Spaces with Your Mum’. She describes how she would walk behind her father, and that she became ‘good at reading the back of his neck.

They promised you a day when you would finally get the love you wanted and deserved if you could reach your goal weight.When it was diagnosed, Wix thought, “So this is what life is really like: a series of terrible events.

In Delicacy, she relates how, on one of her first jobs, a sitcom, a producer told her that she was “too in-between… Looks-wise – you either need put on loads of weight or lose loads of weight. From the age of 14, on the recommendation of her doctor after a rare illness, Wix starts to take a daily walk in the woods with her dad and his dog.She spends a lot of time examining the events in her childhood that complicated the pleasures of eating. It’s as if you have finished a game of pass-the-parcel that lasted for years, only to find no gift at the centre. Delicacy is a gut-wrenching read which discusses themes we can all relate to, but this book also fills us with hope as Katy teaches us not to let your grief consume you, but to learn how to live with it. I probably got into it about half way through, when it became more focused on loss and grief and I found this very relatable, resulting in a few tears in the last couple of chapters! By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.