Delicacy: A memoir about cake and death

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Recounting Wix’s experience growing up in Cardiff, the incubation of body image issues, as well as the aftermath of her profound bereavement, Delicacy provides a deep-dive into grief and emotional vulnerability. When the paramedics arrived, on hearing this, they asked if he was my partner and then I died for real, of embarrassment. She didn't name-drop to 'impress' us with who she has worked alongside, but she also didn't divulge all information, so for example, although she did discuss incidents which had happened to her within her acting life, she wasn't completely lifting the veil and bringing other people into the spotlight. He anchors it in his early experiences as an identical twin, and, through works by authors from Sophocles to Toni Morrison, shows us how the shapeshifting that they enable alters and expands our own sense of self. Cakes are weird, camp objects that seem to appear whenever something emotionally devastating is happening to me.

I went to a friend’s house to watch it and I remember being a bit like ‘yeah right’ watching it, and then when I got home that night, I just cried. Katy has not yet acknowledged her departure from the show on social media, and nor has anyone else from the cast. This glimpse of my future life – where the women were there to move the plot along or be aggressively kissed until they stopped wriggling – frightened me.I forgot that no one teaches us how to grieve, and that there are things I desperately wish people had told me. His dream was to have been an actor or an artist, but these weren’t practical choices for a man from a small Welsh town who left school young. Ghosts viewers will know that Mary has been a fan favourite ever since the very first episode of the BBC comedy – so why did actress Katy Wix leave Ghosts?

Finally, I have an idea for a film script set in Wales — I want it to be about female desire and longing.That’s partly why reading would help me so much because I could see things that were worth saying without joking. For Wix, that experience has been intriguingly, and somewhat unusually, related to the omnipresence of cakes during tragic periods of her life; “cakes are weird, camp objects that seem to appear whenever something emotionally devastating is happening to me”.

Young women were supposed to be desired and pretty, not moon-faced and depressed, pretend-eating pasta with their mums. Her television roles include Carole in Stath Lets Flats, Mary in Ghosts, Barbara in Ted Lasso, and Jules in Big Boys. Like many women, I don’t know exactly at what point food changed for me – I can remember leaving food on my plate as a child, happy to stop eating when satiated (something that later became unfathomably complicated) – but in reading this passage I felt a deep and resounding recognition. And that quite haunted me because there were times where it almost felt slightly masochistic, the degree to which I was so obsessed with the detail; it was draining the amount of energy I had to give to go back over the memories. I wish someone had told me to not be frightened of the future, because I didn’t know that it wouldn’t stay as bad as it was on day one.Ghostsseries two, which lands as a boxset on BBC iPlayer on Monday September 21 st, will give fans more about Mary’s background, says Wix. The resonance of Delicacy has a universality to it, just as grief is universal – the difference, of course, lies in our own unique experience of it. It’s as if you have finished a game of pass-the-parcel that lasted for years, only to find no gift at the centre. When someone appeared with tea and cake in the middle of a family psychodrama, what they are really saying was: Let's all eat our feelings instead of expressing them" (p.