A novel hides its affecting story under too much food talk

Cynthia Wine

This Body

Tessa McWatt

HarperCollins

325 pages, hardcover

ISBN: 0002005654

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Cynthia Wine

Cynthia Wine is a former staff restaurant critic at The Toronto Star and the author of Eating for a Living: Notes from a Professional Diner (Penguin, 1993).

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