Saved By Cake

by Marian Keyes

The Irish novelist commingles memoir and baking advice in this disarmingly honest cookbook, which relates her struggles with depression and the solace she has found in the kitchen. “Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown,” she writes. “Which is very annoying to discover when you’re right in the middle of one… I had to find ways of passing the time until I was restored to myself again. So I baked a cake—a chocolate cheesecake, as it happens. And I enjoyed making it so much that I baked another. And another.”