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The strange and tender new novel from Costa-shortlisted author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.

A startling talent' Guardian'The Sleepwatcher is a bracing and compelling portrayal of adolescence and feeling uncanny at home. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is one of the most distinctive and luminously original novelists of her generation' Sharlene Teo'Elegant, atmospheric, sharp-edged... The Sleepwatcher is a novel that obsessed me from the moment I opened the cover.' Cal Flyn'That summer, my mind separated from my body as completely as an egg crac...

The strange and tender new novel from Costa-shortlisted author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan: a sixteen-year-old girl watches her parents' marriage implode and her family shatter from a surreal viewpoint

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Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she's not about to jump, but they don't believe her. Her husband, Oscar, is called to pick her up. Oscar hopes that leaving New York City for a few months will give Mina the space to heal, so they move to London. Mina, a classicist, works on her book about mythological women and searches for solutions to her failing men...

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A singular novel from the poetic and painterly mind of Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti'An exquisite rendering of love, sadness, and misunderstanding . . . I want to share this book with everyone I know.' The Paris Review 'A quiet triumph - tenderly and disarmingly exploring the responsibility of love, loneliness, what it is to feel lost' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water CureMina is staring over the edge of the Georg...

The moving new novel from Desmond Elliot-shortlisted author of Harmless Like You.

The moving new novel from Desmond Elliot-shortlisted author of Harmless Like You.

Written in startlingly beautiful prose,  Harmless Like You is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin. At its heart is Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and her struggle with her decision to leave her two-year-old son, Jay. As an adult, Jay sets out to find his mother and confront her abandonment.

HARMLESS LIKE YOU is an ode to the outsider. Moving from Manhattan to Berlin, from the Vietnam War to the new millennium, Buchanan's debut explores the thin line between attachment and abandonment, love and pain, selfishness and sacrifice. An unforgettable debut, as rich in darkness and light as it is in colour. CHLOE BENJAMIN, author of The Anatomy of DreamsWhen the meaning of 'home' is complicated, we strive for a sense of connection. Yet so...

A debut novel which explores the complexities of identity and art, and portrays a narrative of a fractured family over decades and through cities. Now in paperback. 'Sublime, calm, profound, beautifully controlled' Chris Cleave

Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin, following Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki's son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront his mother's abandonment of him when he was only two years old. The novel opens when Yuki is sixteen and her father is posted back to Japan. Though she and her family have been living as out...

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