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‘Devastating’ SARA COLLINS ‘A lyrical thriller’DAILY MAIL ‘Beautiful … a stunning debut’ CHRISTIE WATSON‘A thrilling, mesmerising tale of destiny and betrayal’ CECILE PIN 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. I made my plan. I would be the north stars: the decider of fate, of what was to come. Eunha grows up in a quiet village in Hong Kong with little knowledge of the reputation of her father, a Dragon Head and the leader of a criminal organisation infamous in the city. While her grandmother does her best to shield her from the violence that underpins their lives, Eunha only has her brother Solomon and their one permitted companion, a boy named Kai, for company.But when Eunha marries into a supposedly respectable Hong Kong family, the veneer of her sheltered life begins to crack. After her young son is kidnapped, she is cast back into the city’s criminal underground and into the orbit of Kai, now a Dragon Head himself. In this world, love and loyalty are stalked by fear and betrayal. Will Eunha finally give in to the life she has strived so hard to rise above or was her future always fated?The Devoted is a beautifully written, unforgettable debut novel of love, family and betrayal from an electric new voice in fiction.‘Haunting … instantly transportive’ FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face‘A novel that seethes in the best way’ ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN, author of Starling Days‘From the first sentence, this book swept me into Eunha’s world. I mourned and raged with her’ JENNIFER FAWCETT, author of Keep This for Me‘Deeply moving and utterly compelling … I couldn't put it down’ HESTER MUSSON, author of The Night Hag

‘Devastating’ SARA COLLINS ‘A lyrical thriller’DAILY MAIL ‘Beautiful … a stunning debut’ CHRISTIE WATSON‘A thrilling, mesmerising tale of destiny and betrayal’ CECILE PIN 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. I made my plan. I would be the north stars: the decider of fate, of what was to come. Eunha grows up in a quiet village in Hong Kong with little knowledge of the reputation of her father, a Dragon Head and the leader of a criminal organisation infamous in the city. While her grandmother does her best to shield her from the violence that underpins their lives, Eunha only has her brother Solomon and their one permitted companion, a boy named Kai, for company.But when Eunha marries into a supposedly respectable Hong Kong family, the veneer of her sheltered life begins to crack. After her young son is kidnapped, she is cast back into the city’s criminal underground and into the orbit of Kai, now a Dragon Head himself. In this world, love and loyalty are stalked by fear and betrayal. Will Eunha finally give in to the life she has strived so hard to rise above or was her future always fated?The Devoted is a beautifully written, unforgettable debut novel of love, family and betrayal from an electric new voice in fiction.‘Haunting … instantly transportive’ FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face‘A novel that seethes in the best way’ ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN, author of Starling Days‘From the first sentence, this book swept me into Eunha’s world. I mourned and raged with her’ JENNIFER FAWCETT, author of Keep This for Me‘Deeply moving and utterly compelling … I couldn't put it down’ HESTER MUSSON, author of The Night Hag

______________________'A beautifully written account of postpartum psychosis, and the ties, blessings and burdens of family' - NIGELLA LAWSONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE*Observer Book of the Week**A Guardian Memoir of the Year 2020**Harper’s Bazaar 10 Women Who Will Shape What You Watch, See and Read in 2020*______________________‘Striking and original' - Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times'Completely devastating. Completely heartbreaking' - Daisy Johnson______________________Catherine Cho's son was three months old when she and her husband left home to introduce him to their families. Catherine herself could never have envisaged how the trip would end for her - surfacing in an involuntary psychiatric ward, separated from her husband and child, unable to understand who she was, or remember how she got there. In her two weeks on the ward, Catherine turned to her notebook to reconstruct who she was, piece by piece, from the fragments of her life as they drifted back to her. The result is this powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood, at once intensely personal, yet holding within it a universal experience - of how we love, live and understand ourselves in relation to each other. ______________________'A haunting, eloquent evocation of becoming a stranger to yourself' Observer