The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Book

_______________________________On 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.Rose'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.The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is 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._______________________________Now available to preorder: Aimee Bender's new novel, The Butterfly Lampshade

Written by Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake tells the remarkable and unusual story of Rose Edelstein, a girl who can taste emotions through food. On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and first discovers her magical gift, as she is able to taste the despair and desperation of her once cheerful, can-do Mum. Food now becomes perilous as anything can be revealed at any meal. Rose has to confront the truth behind her family's emotions, but learns there are some secrets even her tastebuds cannot discern. Full of the author's trademark surrealism, this is a funny, wise and sad novel about family secrets and the pain of loving those whom you know too much about.