Yuki Means Happiness
$27.17
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
13 March 2018
Summary
‘A mystery, a love story and a fascinating encounter with a different culture, Yuki Means Happiness is an outstanding novel’ John Boyne
Diana is young and uneasy in a new relationship when she leaves America and moves halfway around the world to Tokyo seeking adventure. In Japan she takes a job as a nanny to two-year-old Yuki Yoshimura and sets about adapting to a routine of English practice, ballet and swimming lessons, and Japanese cooking.
But as Diana becomes increasingly …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848549616 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184854961X |
| Author: | Alison Jean Lester |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 13 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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The theme of Alison Jean Lester’s novel is the maternal instinct, movingly evoked here in various guises. It’s funny, warm, scary - and thoroughly recommended - Daily Mail
With Alison Jean Lester’s beautiful prose, the simplicity of the narrative, and the uneasy complexities of her characters bubbling to the surface, the plot is much more than what the nanny saw … she has the Midas touch - Mitford SocietyBeautifully rendered … Lester has the most wonderful eye, capturing the little details of Diana’s alien new life with such simplicity and precision as to capture a rare beauty in the everyday … Lester has constructed her novel like an elegant, piece of origami every element deftly arranged into something as close to perfection as I can imagine - NationalA slow unfurling of what it means to love and fiercely protect another person’s child, set against the intricate backdrop of Japan - Emerald StreetAbout The Author
Alison Jean Lester
Alison Jean Lester was born to an American father and a British mother, and educated in the US, the UK, China and Italy. She spent twenty-five years working, writing and raising her children in Japan and Singapore before relocating to the UK in 2016. She is the author of the novel Lillian on Life and has had short stories published in Ecotone, Good Housekeeping, Synaesthesia and Barrelhouse.
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