It’s true that those familiar with Wix’s television work might have anticipated a very different book, one reflective of her quick humour and wit, but Delicacy is still darkly – and fabulously – funny. Wix is one of those performers who just makes things funnier, better; she is comic to her core, whether playing bolshy estate agent Carole in Stath Lets Flats or an overblown Fergie in The Windsors. It is not included in promotions available to our main range products, as stated in our terms of service. And while writing about mourning her mother, she can’t help but reflect on the consequences, and whether ‘I’ll be asked to go on Celebrity Bake Off once this book comes out, the stand-up-to-cancer one’.

The book illustrates how grief changes you as a person, highlighting who you were before your loss and consequently who you become. Katy highlights how this drawn-out process can be extremely painful, knowing that grief is looming just around the corner. Tristram was a Victorian clergyman and ornithologist who categorised a list of birds he’d found in Palestine. It would mean walking arm in arm down the road with a body that wasn’t ideal, but he would have to tell the world that this was the body he had fallen in love with, and that maybe what he thought he needed and what he thought love would look like had been wrong all along. Comic actor Katy Wix’s hilarious, heartbreaking memoir is made up of 21 defining, variously devastating vignettes in which cakes – “weird, camp objects” – pop up in supporting roles.Now I’ve read her memoir, I understand better the deep well of experience she draws from in these performances.

Wix sustained serious injuries inflicted by the seat belt which saved her life, while her father’s cracked skull and head injuries set him on a painful path of slow, degenerative dementia. Life with all its tragedy and joy has given Katy Wix a wisdom beyond her years and her memoir is a delightful way to get to know the woman behind the actress. Yet, after the accident, it is not just the communication of their father-daughter relationship which improves, but Wix’s own understanding of intimacy.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I love Wix’s beautiful, heart-rending performance as Mary in Ghosts, the pathos of her portrayal of Carole in Stath Lets Flats, the awkward need to be liked layered over deep kindness in her characterisation of Jules in Big Boys, and was delighted by her insouciance on Taskmaster. This quest for truth is felt throughout Delicacy , less in the exactness of its recounting and more in its emotional history – the understanding that our past feelings lay the foundation for the present and how, in relaying them, we might make them processable. I struggled to find the humour and although elements of it felt very raw and real, there wasn't enough of that or the dark humour for a whole book. However, it is also -and rather unfortunately, a book that would strongly benefit from an extra edit or two, as ultimately it read a little too “all over the (cake?She turns her pain into poetry: intimate, candid, exquisitely described, deftly using words rich with grace, pain and power. Instead, it is the one for which the chapter is named – ‘The First Cake’ – an event which is preceded by Wix’s statement that: “My mother’s hopes for me were that I would always be happy and thin.