{"product_id":"the-particular-sadness-of-lemon-cake-9780099538264","title":"The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother''s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother''s emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRose''s gift forces her to confront the truth behind her family''s emotions - her mother''s sadness, her father''s detachment and her brother''s clash with the world. But as Rose grows up, she learns that there are some secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake \u003c\/i\u003eis about the pain of loving those whom you know too much about, and the secrets that exist within every family. At once profound, funny, wise and sad, this is a novel to savour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow available to preorder: Aimee Bende\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntriguing and poignantly written * PA Life *\u003cbr\u003eA book with \u003cb\u003esuch beautiful writing\u003c\/b\u003e that sometimes I have to stop and taste a sentence a second time -- Jodi Picoult * Grazia *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ewonderful\u003c\/b\u003e metaphor for the child's sense of things that are never mentioned, and \u003cb\u003eBender writes with wit, warmth and insight\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuirky, engaging\u003c\/b\u003e tale of a family endowed with unlikely gifts, the ties that bind people barely conceal the chasms that divide them * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake\u003c\/i\u003e has at its heart an intriguing and poignant comment on the perils of childhood  ... Bender brilliantly dovetails Rose's condition into a parable of the dangers of knowing too much about people, especially your family ... it is \u003cb\u003efresh and beautifully written\u003c\/b\u003e * The Sunday Times *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornerstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732279538007,"sku":"9780099538264","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-particular-sadness-of-lemon-cake-9780099538264","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}