Your next read for fans of ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT and MY GLORY - the bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers'' Award: a deeply moving story of vulnerability and finding your voice as a woman fleeing hard times befriends a young boy who cannot speak. Readers adore 52-HERTZ WHALES: ''If you have to work tomorrow, don''t read this, since your eyes will be swollen up the next day. I read this in a single sitting and it saved me from the loneliness I had in my heart'' Reader review * ''A wonderful, beautiful story of what is both ugly and precious about humanity , filled with what we need most'' Reader review * HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE BESTSELLING WINNER OF THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS'' AWARD MADE INTO AN AWARD-NOMINATED FILM Emotional rescue is a two-way street Kiko has run away from her Tokyo life to a rural village by the sea and rumours are flying among the locals about this mysterious newcomer. When she comes across an abandoned boy who is unable to speak, an unusual bond develops as she shares a tale of the lonely whale whose voice is too high-pitched for others to hear. As she unpicks the boy''s story, and he unravels hers, a gripping and powerful history of strength, survival and finding your voice begins to unfold.

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SONOKO MACHIDA won the influential Japan Booksellers' Award in 2021 with her much-loved novel 52-Hertz Whales, which went on to sell over 400,000 copies. This translation into English by Sam Bett is long awaited. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1980, Sonoko Machida left school to become a hairdresser. While in her twenties, she realized she had a strong wish to write stories. She brought up her children as a single parent and continues to write bestselling fiction in Japan. Her most recent book to be translated into English is The Convenience Store by the Sea.

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**By the author of the bestselling THE CONVENIENCE STORE BY THE SEA

Your next read for fans of ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT and MY GLORY - the bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers' Award: a deeply moving story of vulnerability and finding your voice as a woman fleeing hard times befriends a young boy who cannot speak.

Readers adore 52-HERTZ WHALES:**

'If you have to work tomorrow, don't read this, since your eyes will be swollen up the next day. I read this in a single sitting and it saved me from the loneliness I had in my heart' Reader review *

'A wonderful, beautiful story of what is both ugly and precious about humanity, filled with what we need most' Reader review *

**HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD
THE BESTSELLING WINNER OF THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD
MADE INTO AN AWARD-NOMINATED FILM

Emotional rescue is a two-way street**

Kiko has run away from her Tokyo life to a rural village by the sea and rumours are flying among the locals about this mysterious newcomer. When she comes across an abandoned boy who is unable to speak, an unusual bond develops as she shares a tale of the lonely whale whose voice is too high-pitched for others to hear. As she unpicks the boy's story, and he unravels hers, a gripping and powerful history of strength, survival and finding your voice begins to unfold.