- Published: 1 April 2011
- ISBN: 9781446457108
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 336
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The heartwarming Richard and Judy Book Club favourite
- Published: 1 April 2011
- ISBN: 9781446457108
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 336
Intriguing and poignantly written
PA Life
[A] transformative narrative... powerful
San Francisco Chronicle
[Bender] careens splendidly through an obstacle course of pathological, fantastical neuroses... brimming with a zesty, beguiling talent
Publishers Weekly
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
Moving and highly original, this book will make you look at food in a whole new light
Star
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 wonderful metaphor for the child's sense of things that are never mentioned, and Bender writes with wit, warmth and insight
The Times
A beguiling, offbeat book that reads like a poem
Daily Telegraph
A book with such beautiful writing that sometimes I have to stop and taste a sentence a second time
Jodi Picoult, Grazia
A lovely book, warm and comforting with moments of sadness and brilliantly written
Bookseller
A truly unique exploration of turbulent family relationships and a young girl on the cusp of adulthood grappling with grown-up emotions.
EasyLiving.com
Aimee Bender has got that cool, quirky American thing going on. Taking an unlikely premise - a girl who discovers she can taste emotions in food - she transforms it into a lovely, lonesome universal tale.
marie claire
An intriguing premise for an original novel about a family and its relationships
Good Book Guide
As delightful as its title suggests.
Glamour
Bender is the master of quiet hysteria... She builds pressure sentence by sentence
Los Angeles Times
Extraordinary
Time Out New York
Haunting... Bender's prose delivers electric shocks... Moving, fanciful and gorgeously strange
People Magazine
It's a charming, funny, wistful novel, with serious things to say about feelings people hide and the nature of true nourishment
Saga
It's as beautiful as it is strange. Bender writes such lyrical sentences, you pause over them in wonder. She has an unusual take on life; and makes even the ordinary extraordinary. It's a compulsive page turner. This book is already a best seller in America, and has been embraced by book clubs. I loved it. It's one of those books you don't want to finish - and even when you have - it stays in your mind. Bender has written three previous novels. I intend to savour them all
Irish Examiner
Lose yourself in a fantastical gastronomical journey ... This novel explores familial love in an unexpected way, and you'll be hooked from the first taste
She
The book I wish I had written ... it's so clever
Cecelia Ahern
The book initially reads like the familiar tale of a cosy, suburban middle-class LA household concealing frustrated lives behind an outwardly-cheery veneer. But by kicking the narrative left with the surrealist twist of Rose's psychic tastebuds it becomes so much more: an unpredictable meeting of modern magic and melancholic realism.
The List
This emotional and moving tale blew us away with its beauty
Bella
This is a moving and fantastical tale of the secrets and lies that lurk beneath the surface of a seemingly happy family.
Prima
This novel, in the style of stories like Chocolat, is a dreamy feast of gorgeous writing ... Gently, beautiful, odd, this is a story to sip and savour
Dublin Evening Herald
Ultimate weepy foodie book ... fabulous
Red