Meet Angel Tungaraza professional cake-baker amateur matchmaker an ear to listen & a shoulder to cry on. A uniquely charming funny & touching novel of life life & food set in Rwanda a country recovers from unimaginable terror & violence. Angel Tungazara has recently moved to Rwanda from her native Tanzania. With her husband Pius & the five orphaned children of their late son & daughter she is hardly short of things to do. But she still finds time to pursue her hobby & her passion her small but increasingly successful business baking individually-designed cakes for the parties & celebrations of her neighbours & their friends. Angel is entirely aware that many of the Rwandans around her have witnessed & survived horrors she can barely imagine. But she also knows that their lives continue that they also have reasons to celebrate to be joyous & to be happy. As she gets to know her neighbours & 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. & finally she comes to accept how much that is true of her too.