"…this isn’t a book with gourmet pretensions. It’s like a gossip around the kitchen table with your best friend. It’s girly, chatty, obsessed with shoes and quite camp. Just reading it is enough to cheer you up. Which is why she wrote it in the first place." — Daily Mail
"Marian Keyes is one of the great pioneers of chicklit. Since publishing her first novel in 1995, she’s sold more than 22 million books worldwide….It is a crowded field, baking books. New ones appear every week. Yet Marian Keyes’s stands out for its extremity. Cake or die. We can only thank her for her clarity and admire her courage." — London Evening Standard
