The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Intriguing and poignantly written * PA Life *A book with such beautiful writing that sometimes I have to stop and taste a sentence a second time – Jodi Picoult * Grazia *A wonderful metaphor for the child’s sense of things that are never mentioned, and Bender writes with wit, warmth and insight * The Times *Quirky, engaging tale of a family endowed with unlikely gifts, the ties that bind people barely conceal the chasms that divide them * Guardian *The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 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 fresh and beautifully written * The Sunday Times *A beguiling, offbeat book that reads like a poem * Daily Telegraph *Intense, strange and incredibly moving, it captures the magic and the romance of the unknown. With nods to both Chocolat and The Time Traveler’s Wife, this is a beautifully written book and one that you will want to talk about long after you have finished reading it. * Elle *A lovely book, warm and comforting with moments of sadness and brilliantly written * Bookseller *Haunting… Bender’s prose delivers electric shocks… Moving, fanciful and gorgeously strange * People Magazine *[A] transformative narrative… powerful * San Francisco Chronicle *

Aimee Bender is the author of the novel An Invisible Sign of My Own and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Wilful Creatures. Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into ten languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

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