The Cake Therapist

Name: The Cake Therapist
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Judith Fertig
ISBN: 9781504601047

Author: Judith Fertig

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 7 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 06/02/2015

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

A fiction debut that will leave you wanting seconds, from an award-winning cookbook authorClaire "Neely" O'Neil is a pastry chef of extraordinary talent. Every great chef can taste shimmering, elusive flavors that most of us miss, but Neely can "taste" feelings—cinnamon makes you remember, plum is pleased with itself, orange is a wake-up call. When flavor and feeling give Neely a glimpse of someone's inner self, she can customize her creations to help that person celebrate love, overcome fear, even mourn a devastating loss.Maybe that's why she feels the need to go home to Millcreek Valley at a time when her life seems about to fall apart. The bakery she opens in her hometown is perfect, intimate, just what she's always dreamed of—and yet, as she meets her new customers, Neely has a sense of secrets, some dark, some perhaps with tempting possibilities. A recurring flavor of alarming intensity signals to her perfect palate a long-ago story that must be told.Neely has always been able to help everyone else. Getting to the end of this story may be just what she needs to help herself.

About Judith Fertig

Judith Fertig is an award-winning cookbook author whose food and lifestyle writing has appeared in more than a dozen publications, including Bon Appétit, Saveur, and the New York Times. Judith attended the École de Cuisine La Varenne in Paris and the Graduate Summer Workshop at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She teaches cooking classes across the country and lives in Kansas City.

About Tanya Eby

Tanya Eby is a novelist and an audiobook narrator who has earned several AudioFile Earphones Awards and been nominated for the Audie Award. She has a BA degree in English language and literature and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on June 02, 2015

Just as cake and icing go together, THE CAKE THERAPIST blends generations and sweets and turns both into one heartfelt story. THE CAKE THERAPIST is a wonderful treat for the senses, especially your taste buds, as well as feelings. Claire O'Neil Davis has come back home to fulfill her dream of owning......more

Goodreads review by Yvonne on July 21, 2015

Life in New York takes a nosedive for pastry chef Claire “Neely” O’Neil as her marriage collapses. So she decides to pack up and move back to her hometown of Millcreek Valley in Ohio. Neely makes one of her dreams come true – she opens her own bakery, Rainbow Cake, which specializes in wedding cakes......more

Goodreads review by C. on October 10, 2015

First of all I liked Neely. And I liked reading about her struggle to establish herself in a business, on her own, and free from a relationship that would only lead her into another round of disappointment and infidelity. That was one through line that kept my attention. But Fertig did more to keep......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 05, 2015

I loved this book! I could not put it down. It reminded me of Chocolat and it reminded me of Sarah Addison Allen and I can't give a book a much higher compliment than that. It's magical realism, which I love, and it has a bit of a mystery. Very fun read. I want her to keep writing lots of books as good......more

Goodreads review by Angela on August 26, 2018

I really really really enjoyed this book. Fertig makes you smell the lusciousness and taste the flavors of the baking. I even stopped and made almond/blueberry scones between chapters.......more

Quotes

“In a small town where secrets run deep and over generations, Fertig shows friendship, family, and food can bring people together and heal old wounds. A novel that is a true treat for the senses.” Jill Shalvis, New York Times bestselling author

“A delicious treat for readers…Like a master chef, Judith Fertig takes the tale of a gifted baker starting all over in her old Midwestern hometown and layers it together with an intriguing mystery buried deep in the community’s Depression-era past.” Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author

“A pastry chef with an uncanny ability returns to her hometown to make sense of her future while delving into the past…The prose is at its best when it focuses on the smells and tastes of the bakery—the decadent buttercream, the elegant cakes, and the whirr of the espresso machine constantly in motion.” Kirkus Reviews