
Black Cake is a TV series created by Marissa Jo Cerar in 2023 and based on the book of the same name by Charmaine Wilkerson, first published in 2022. The TV series features Stephanie Jacob, Rupert Evans, Cara Horgan, Rebecca Calder, Chipo Chung, Ashley Thomas, and others.
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Storyline
In the late 1960s, Covey, a runaway bride, vanishes into the waves off the Jamaican coast, leaving behind a mystery of whether she drowned or fled after her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, Eleanor Bennett, a widowed woman in her 60s, succumbs to cancer. In her absence, her two distant children discover a flash drive containing unheard stories of her voyage from the Caribbean to America.
Movie vs Book

Year
2023
Minutes
60
Movie Rate
6.90
Source: IMDb

Year
2022
Pages
385
Book Rate
8.22
S: Goodreads
Book
Black Cake
Author: Charmaine Wilkerson
Country: USA
First published in: 2022
Length: 385 pages
Genre: Fiction
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