Baking Cakes in Kigali

Meet Angel Tungaraza, professional cake-baker, amateur matchmaker, an ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on. "Baking Cakes in Kigali" is a uniquely charming, funny and touching novel of life, life and food set in a country recovering from unimaginable terror and violence.Angel Tungazara has recently moved to Rwanda from her native Tanzania. With her husband, Pius, and the five orphaned children of their late son and daughter, she is hardly short of things to do. But she still finds time to pursue her hobby and her passion, her small but increasingly successful business, baking individually-designed cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours and their friends."Baking Cakes in Kigali" introduces the unique and irresistible Angel, a fairy godmother who seemingly works miracles for her friends and neighbours; but she is also irresistibly manipulative, if always of course for the best.Angel is entirely aware that many of the Rwandans around her have witnessed and survived horrors she can barely imagine. But she also knows that their lives continue, that they also have reasons to celebrate, to be joyous and to be happy. As she gets to know her neighbours and as they tell her their stories, she comes to realise how much each of them has to mourn as well as how much they have to celebrate. And, finally, she comes to accept how much that is true of her too...