The Interpretation of Cakes

The Interpretation of Cakes is like no other novel you have ever read and is one novel that you will never forget.

It’s 1916 and Isaak Brodsky has inherited his family’s patisserie in the Jewish quarter of Budapest. Here, in the midst of shelves overcrowded with marvellous, mouth-watering cakes, Isaak discovers that offering his customers the right cake leads to their spiritual growth and his own. And so, the twentieth century science of Cake-analysis is born.

This novel brings Budapest’s cafés, streets and people to life in a charming, joyous and irresistible romp through the beginnings of psychotherapy and the mysteries of the conscious and unconscious mind. Thinking, and indeed, eating cake, will never be the same again.

About the Author

Allan Tegg spent his twenties working on Aboriginal communities in central and western Australia. After witnessing the psychological impacts of long-term trauma, he decided to train as a psychotherapist. He has worked in private practice in Sydney for the last thirty years. Allan has become increasingly interested in the relationship between psychotherapy and culture. He has written on how psychotherapists are portrayed in different artistic mediums. He has created a blog on psychotherapy and popular music. He has facilitated workshops that help counsellors working with refugees to tell their stories and presented a paper on his experience on Aboriginal communities from a psychotherapy perspective. The Interpretation of Cakes is his first novel.