We learn about the challenges she herself faced being raised mostly without a mother, and her motivations for fleeing her home. When her lawyer Mitch stays to show the siblings the video, they quickly realize that their mother’s childhood and adolescence was not at all what they expected, and that there was a reason she was so drawn to her special dessert.įilled with so many interesting characters we, along with Byron and Benny, flash back to Eleanor née Covey’s upbringing in the Caribbean and subsequent move to Britain. Matriarch Eleanor Bennett has succumbed to her disease and left some of her famous black cake in the freezer and a video recording for her children Byron and Benny.Įleanor was a great mother, but often a little vague about her and her husband’s origins, simply maintaining that they were orphans from the West Indies. This does not affect my opinion regarding the book. Don't leave things unsaid.Ī huge thank you to the author and publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley. It's an amazing story of family and love and remember, you have a limited amount of time with them and you never know when time will run out. I really liked the struggles of the kids, the bigger cast of characters as they were revealed both past and present, and getting to know the mother (even though it was already after she'd passed). It was a bit hard to untangle, but the chapters are really short so it's easy to keep flying through the story and try to keep it all straight.
Mixed in are the "now" sections of what's going on in the kids' world and how they are handling the secrets. It bounces around with each secret and they jump through huge sections of the mother's life. It details a lot of secrets they had no idea about.īut the story isn't linear. Two kids come home at the request of a an attorney to play a recording left by their recently passed mother. This story is a bit of a tangled ball of string. I love knowing that many have family recipes that they pass down to their kids - I love that they don't have measurements but instead just list a group of items with no idea how much of each to add. That once they couldn't get a bread right until they tried it with salt water (because that was what was available to those making it). I love the idea of tracking food and how it changes from region and culture. "The biggest moments in our lives are often just that, a matter of seconds when something shifts and we react and everything changes."
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