<span style="font-size:12px;">An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives unspool in unexpected directions.</span><br><span style="font-size:12px;"><br></span><br><span style="font-size:12px;">Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in with her peers, suppressing both her heritage and her growing love for her best friend Fran.</span><br><span style="font-size:12px;"><br></span><br><span style="font-size:12px;">Yuki leaves her parents’ farm in the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist. A lonely and homesick student in London, she finds herself caught up in the charms of her older teacher.</span><br><span style="font-size:12px;"><br></span><br><span style="font-size:12px;">Haruka, a young bar hostess living in Tokyo, attempts to navigate the city’s underworld and all of its many vices, as she grieves a mother who hid so many secrets from her.</span><br><span style="font-size:12px;"><br></span><br><span style="font-size:12px;">Shifting between these three intergenerational narratives, Mongrel reveals a tangled web of isolation, yearning, love, and ultimately, hope.</span>