‘Profoundly generous and humane’ DOUGLAS STUART
‘Engrossing … brilliantly imagined’ COLM TÓIBÍN
‘Extraordinary’ TARA WESTOVER
‘A novel I didn’t want to end’ ROXANE GAY
Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty.
‘Profoundly generous and humane’ DOUGLAS STUART
‘Engrossing … brilliantly imagined’ COLM TÓIBÍN
‘Extraordinary’ TARA WESTOVER
‘A novel I didn’t want to end’ ROXANE GAY
Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty.
‘Profoundly generous and humane’ DOUGLAS STUART
‘Engrossing … brilliantly imagined’ COLM TÓIBÍN
‘Extraordinary’ TARA WESTOVER
‘A novel I didn’t want to end’ ROXANE GAY
Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty.
‘Absorbing’GUARDIAN
‘Magical’GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘Suspenseful’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Wildly inventive’ LIZ MOORE
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK
In this dazzling debut novel, a young reclusive coder unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a legacy of magic, espionage and family secrets that will alter the path of her life forever.
‘Devasting’ SARA COLLINS
‘Beautiful … a stunning debut’ CHRISTIE WATSON
‘A thrilling, mesmerising tale of destiny and betrayal’ CECILE PIN
‘Haunting … instantly transportive’ FRANCES CHA
AN ELLE MOST ANTICIPATED READ OF 2026.
A stunning, page-turning love story of family and fate from the author of the acclaimed memoir, Inferno.
‘Devastating’ SARA COLLINS
‘Part romance, part suspenseful thriller’ THE TIMES
‘Beautiful … a stunning debut’ CHRISTIE WATSON
‘Moving … The Godfather, seen through a female eye’ GUARDIAN
AN ELLE MOST ANTICIPATED READ OF 2026.
A stunning, page-turning love story of family and fate from the author of the acclaimed memoir, Inferno.
‘Devasting’ SARA COLLINS
‘Beautiful … a stunning debut’ CHRISTIE WATSON
‘A thrilling, mesmerising tale of destiny and betrayal’ CECILE PIN
‘Haunting … instantly transportive’ FRANCES CHA
AN ELLE MOST ANTICIPATED READ OF 2026.
A stunning, page-turning love story of family and fate from the author of the acclaimed memoir, Inferno.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026
‘Miraculous’ OMAR EL AKKAD
‘Stunning’ MAAZA MENGISTE
‘Suffused with tenderness’NEW YORK TIMES
‘Beautiful and powerful’ LISA OWENS
‘Wondrous’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
An extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man’s itinerant search for home across the globe, after his childhood exile from Palestine.
‘A tour de force family drama’ELLE
‘Bursting with poignancy’NEW YORKER
‘Tender, absorbing’ CATHERINE NEWMAN
‘First-rate storytelling’ BBC
‘A riveting novel about how family molds us – for good and ill – and the grace that comes with forgiveness’PEOPLE MAGAZINE
‘A tour de force family drama’ELLE
‘Bursting with poignancy’NEW YORKER
‘Tender, absorbing’ CATHERINE NEWMAN
‘First-rate storytelling’ BBC
‘A riveting novel about how family molds us – for good and ill – and the grace that comes with forgiveness’PEOPLE MAGAZINE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2025
‘Enormously entertaining’THE TIMES
‘Unputdownable’ HARPER’S BAZAAR
‘Funny, sharp and insightful … a triumph’ LAUREN LAVERNE
‘Magnificent’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO
‘Absorbing’GUARDIAN
‘Magical’GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘Suspenseful’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Wildly inventive’ LIZ MOORE
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK
In this dazzling debut novel, a young reclusive coder unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a legacy of magic, espionage and family secrets that will alter the path of her life forever.
‘Absorbing’GUARDIAN
‘Magical’GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘Suspenseful’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Wildly inventive’ LIZ MOORE
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK
In this dazzling debut novel, a young reclusive coder unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a legacy of magic, espionage and family secrets that will alter the path of her life forever.
‘Absorbing’GUARDIAN
‘Magical’GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘Suspenseful’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Wildly inventive’ LIZ MOORE
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK
In this dazzling debut novel, a young reclusive coder unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a legacy of magic, espionage and family secrets that will alter the path of her life forever.
‘A gorgeous, sweeping epic’ ANN NAPOLITANO
‘A master of prose’WASHINGTON POST
‘One of my favourite writers’ ROXANE GAY
‘Spectacular’ JOANNE SEFTON
‘I didn’t want it to end’ SARA SHERIDAN
