Crossing continents and juggling lives, Black Cake is a powerful story of love and loss, kinship and separation, heartache and hope, spanning sixty years in the life of one family NO FAMILY IS AN ISLAND . . . When Eleanor Bennett dies her children gather for the funeral. Byron and Benny haven't talked in years. Not since Benny fell out with their father Bert. But Eleanor has left a couple of surprises behind. Firstly, a recording, which upends everything Byron and Benny ever knew or believed about their parents: who they were, where they came from, what they once endured. It's a story that cuts right to the heart, and rifts, of their family. Secondly, her famous Black Cake - a Caribbean recipe that she trusts, when the time is right, will help them find their way home...