The Number One Global Sensation Foyle''s Fiction Book of the Year Amazon Book of the Year Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year ''Addictive'' Grazia ''Hugely entertaining'' Observer ''Provocative'' Mail on Sunday JUNE IS GOOD AT TELLING STORIES. BUT SHE''S GREAT AT TELLING LIES... When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her literary rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity... and takes it. So what if it means stealing Athena''s final manuscript? So what if it means ''borrowing'' her identity? And so what if the first lie is only the beginning... Catapulted to overnight success and with the whole world watching, how far will June go to protect her new life? ''The book that everyone is talking about'' Glamour ''Ingenious, astute, hugely entertaining'' David Nicholls ''Breathtakingly clever on jealousy, talent, success, and who gets to tell which story'' Elizabeth Day ''Hard to put down. Harder to forget'' Stephen King R.F. Kuang''s book Yellowface was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 04-06-23 R.F. Kuang''s book Yellowface was a #5 New York Times bestseller w/c 04-06-23 ...

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Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese-English translator, and the Astounding Award-winning and the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy and the forthcoming Babel. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.

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The Number One Global Sensation*Foyle's Fiction Book of the YearAmazon Book of the YearShortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year*