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This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake & it begins when, aged eleven, she is orphaned & placed in the care of sadistic foster parents. But there comes a point in her preteen years
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Astonishingly, Cupcake turned her life around & this is her brutally frank, startlingly funny story. Unlike any memoir you will ever read, A Piece of Cake is a redemptive, gripping tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of contemporary urban life & survived it. It is also the most genuinely affecting rollercoaster ride through hell & back that you will ever take.

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