Butter

'Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable Butter will churn your brain and your stomach with panache Pandora Sykes, author of How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? An unputdownable, breathtakingly original novel I will be spoon-feeding Butter to every woman I know Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key 'I have been glued to Asako Yuzukis new novel Butter contains delicious descriptions' Nigel Slater, Guardian Feast newsletter Exuberant, indulgent romp of a novel Butter is a full-fat, Michelin-starred treat that moves seamlessly between an Angry Young Woman narrative and an engrossing detective drama and back again. Yuzuki has crafted an almost Dickensian cast of fleshy characters, with just as many surprise connections Let this book bring you under its spell The Times Ambitious and unsettling a thought-provoking and surprisingly feelgood take on friendship, transgressive pleasures, and societys impossibly contradictory expectations of women Guardian 'Yuzuki uses luscious food writing to fuel a nuanced and intelligent exploration of contemporary womanhood I devoured this dark and delicious novel' Imogen Crimp, author of A Very Nice Girl A delectable meditation on appetite, fatphobia and misogyny in modern Japan a salty morsel with one hell of a bite Alice Slater, author of Death of A Bookseller Yuzuki evokes a cold and alienating world Financial Times This Japanese novel, which has become quite the cult phenomenon, is nothing short of ingenious iNews A book that interrogates misogyny and obsession through the prism of food Monocle Food, gender and violence are explored in this delicious novel i-D 'It'll make your mouth water' Irish Independent

Asako Yuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1981. She won the All Yomimono Award for New Writers for her story, Forget Me, Not Blue, which appeared in her debut, Shuuten No Anoko, published in 2010. She won the Yamamoto Shgor Award in 2015 for Nile Perch No Joshikai. She has been nominated multiple times for the Naoko Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio and film.