A review by catdad77a45
Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann

4.0

Ellmann's award-winning debut novel shows glimmers of the vitriol and fun to come in her later works. It is at least semi-autobiographical, since Lucy is clearly based on the author herself, and the dying father is surely Richard Ellmann (who indeed died the year before this was initially published). The interpolation of bits and pieces from outside sources doesn't QUITE work here, I don't think, but she hones those skills further on in her career. Not a major work, but short and sweet.