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Black Cake


 

"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea," his mother said one day, when Byron was struggling in the water, "but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself.  The sea is going to do what it wants." She winked.'

Complex, moving, character-driven novel with love, laughter, pain and loss.  And of course, the history of the Black Cake!

In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past—a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. 

We can't choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? 

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