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Crazy as Chocolate by Elisabeth Hyde (view source)
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|title=Crazy as Chocolate
|author=Elisabeth Hyde
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|pages=176
|publisher=Pan
|date=March 2007
|isbn=978-0330449663
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Izzy is about to reach a turning point in her life. Her forty-first birthday is approaching and with it a flood of memories, for it was on her forty-first birthday that Izzy's mum committed suicide Izzy knows that it is crazy - '' If forty-one is anything, it's an age where a grown daughter ought to be able to put these things behind her.'' But, when your life is ruled by what has gone before, simply putting it behind you is not an option. It's even less of an option when your sister, niece and father are with you on your birthday forming a constant reminder of the past.
With thanks to the publishers, Pan, for sending this book.
If you like the sound of this, you'll probably also enjoy Elisabeth Hyde's earlier work, [[''The Abortionist's Daughter]] '' and also [[Love in the Present Tense]] by Catherine Ryan Hyde. The wonderful [[The Tenderness of Wolves]] might also hit the spot for its strength of characterisation and compelling storyline. For factual accounts of the effects of mental illness on the sufferer and their family you might also appreciate Elaine Bass' [[A Secret Madness]] and [[Sunlight on the Garden]] by Elizabeth Speller.
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|name=Zoë
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|comment= I'm glad this one's worth a read because I loved The Abortionist's Daughter. And anything with chocolate in the title automatically attracts my interest too.
I know what you mean about undeveleoped endings as I've read a few books that would fall into this category recently, but I'd still rather have a great story with a dubious end than the other way round.
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