Susan Elliot Wright, author of The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood
‘Sensuous and unsettling, Scott’s prose will stay with you long after the final page has been turned. Although at times a shatteringly brutal story, Scott carries the reader with great skill towards a surprisingly redemptive ending. Storytelling at its best’
Guinevere Glasfurd, Costa Novel Award shortlisted author of The Words in My Hand
‘A stunning debut: tragically beautiful, sensuous and haunting. Wow, just wow’
Fiona Mitchell, author of The Maid’s Room
‘A powerful, ambitious and stunning debut. This is an extraordinary, humane and shattering story of the lies we tell to protect ourselves and others. Scott’s incredible novel brims with psychological complexity, forensic research and characters shaped by unimaginable loss’
Jackie Copelton, author of A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
‘With exquisite care, Scott shows us a tempestuous side of Japan unfamiliar to most. This is a virtuoso’s debut’
Jing-Jing Lee, author of How We Disappeared
‘An unusual and stylish story of love and murder’
Kirkus
About the Author
Stephanie Scott is a Singaporean and British writer who was born and raised in Southeast Asia. She read English Literature at the Universities of York and Cambridge and holds an MSt in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. Scott was awarded a British Association of Japanese Studies Toshiba Studentship for her anthropological work on What’s Left of Me Is Yours and has been made a member of the British Japanese Law Association as a result of her research; an early draft of the manuscript also won the A.M. Heath Prize and the Jerwood Arvon Prize for Prose Fiction, and was runner-up for the Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. What’s Left of Me Is Yours is her first novel.
Copyright
First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Copyright © Stephanie Scott 2020
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
Extract on p. 145 from Narrow Road to the North and Other Travel Sketches written by Matsuo Basho and translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa. Copyright © Nobuyuki Yuasa, 1966. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
‘Everything has been figured out, except how to live’, p.297, from Essays in Aesthetics by Jean-Paul Sartre (© Philosophical Library/Open Road Media 2012)
All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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