Delicacy: A memoir about cake and death

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It’s good as a woman to feel anger, because my mother pretended she didn’t have any and my father had too much. Alison and the ghosts picked a star in the sky to be Mary and we all had to finally accept that Mary was not coming back. Veteran American literary scholar Arnold Weinstein presents an irresistible thesis in this agile, instantly engaging work of personal literary criticism. Her television roles include Carole in Stath Lets Flats, Mary in Ghosts, Barbara in Ted Lasso, and Jules in Big Boys.

In 2007, Wix joined the cast of sitcom Not Going Out as recurring character Daisy and then went on to be a regular from Series 3 until her final appearance in the 2015 Christmas special. You realise that you are probably trying to fulfil your parents’ unrealised creative dreams, and yet she demonstrates to you that womanhood equals martyrdom. Caragh Medlicott: It’s almost unfathomable that people are expected to function after such a short period of time. But it’s so confusing because no one has to say to girls directly that food is bad but these messages are transmitted — consciously or unconsciously — through our mothers and the people around us.She did a show that was rehabilitating people that had come out of prison and women that had been sex workers all their loves, just amazing. I listened to Delicacy on audiobook, even though I’d been particularly attracted to the picture of a Victoria sponge slice on the physical copy and by the way the words were laid out in short snippets on the page. Caragh Medlicott: I always think that prose poetry is closer to the reality of how we experience emotions anyway. Well, it seems like her outburst finally gave her enough peace to pass on, as she was suddenly taken up at the start of episode 4. Prior to the accident, Wix seemed to feel stumped and somewhat snubbed by the obscurity of her father’s past; “I began to wonder who he was […] there was so much I didn’t know”.

I’d remembered from watching Casualty that you should repeat the person’s first name to keep them conscious.I’d written everything down and the first version was almost like a journal so then I had to turn it into something more.

I was looking up the etymology of the word ‘memoir’ the other day and Google informs me that it’s from an Old French word meaning “something written to be kept in mind”.Do you think that our society is impatient with grief, where after a certain period people don’t want to be reminded of it because it makes them uncomfortable?

Shocking, raw, darkly funny and deeply humane, Katy Wix’s exploration of trauma, grief, addiction, love, loss, memory and hope is truly unforgettable. We’ll have to stay tuned and see, but it seems like no coincidence that he joined the show so soon after Mary’s departure. To have been in comedy for so long, where everything is steeped in irony, to suddenly be so sincere was hard. She started off on The Oprah Winfrey Show – I love Oprah so much – and she’s a TV therapist/healer/spiritual.

It is – in many ways – an experience common to womanhood, the realisation that being a girl, being a woman, is hard; that after your body ceases – as Wix puts it – to be a “neutral zone”, there is an embarking upon a journey of push-and-pull, the denial of sustenance combined with the inevitable craving, and caving, to the numbing power of coveted food.