Yellowface: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from author R.F. Kuang (colour may vary)
June Hayward is a struggling writer with a bruised ego and an inconvenient front-row seat to tragedy. When her far more successful rival, Athena Liu, dies in a bizarre accident, June does something unforgivable. She takes Athena's unpublished manuscript, claims it as her own, and watches the fame she always craved finally roll in. The only problem? Lies have a way of multiplying. R.F. Kuang's novel is a sharp, propulsive read that gets under your skin in the best possible way. It's wickedly funny in places, genuinely unsettling in others, and uncomfortably honest about the publishing world's obsessions with identity, authenticity, and who gets to tell certain stories. You'll find yourself racing through it, slightly ashamed of how much you're enjoying June's spectacular moral unravelling. Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year and winner of the British Book Awards Fiction prize, it's earned its reputation through genuine originality rather than hype alone. Stephen King called it hard to put down and harder to forget, and that's about right. David Nicholls praised its wit and intelligence, while Elizabeth Day highlighted how precisely it captures the uglier corners of jealousy and ambition. This is a novel that asks awkward questions and refuses to let the reader off the hook. Uncomfortable, compulsive, and quietly brilliant.
- Author: Rebecca F Kuang
- Publisher: The Borough Press
- Genre: Science Fiction
- ISBN: 978-0008532819
- Pages: 336 pages