Heart-Shaped Tin

Name: Heart-Shaped Tin
Author: Bee Wilson
ISBN: 9780008685638

by Bee Wilson

ISBN: 9780008685638

Published: 2025-03-13

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**A 2025 book to look out for by the Guardian and Sunday Times** This strikingly original account from award-winning food writer Bee Wilson charts how everyday objects take on deeply personal meanings in all our lives. One ordinary day, out of the blue, the heart-shaped tin in which Bee Wilson baked her wedding cake falls to the ground. This should have been unremarkable, except that two months earlier her husband left her for another woman. In a search of others who had also invested kitchen objects with strong meanings and emotions, Wilson found that this way of thinking might be the rule rather than the exception. Even those who believe they're not at all sentimental might have a weak spot - a grandmother's wooden spoon or a salt shaker inherited from a parent. In a late-capitalist world flooded with so much clutter, what to keep and what to let go becomes an overwhelmingly existential question. We hold on to seemingly useless things because of the feelings they inspire, and...

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