{"id":1800,"date":"2020-03-02T12:28:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T12:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2020-07-10T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:37:37","slug":"mst-alumna-stephanie-scotts-novel-whats-left-of-me-is-yours-to-be-published-on-21st-april-and-listed-in-the-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"MSt alumna Stephanie Scott’s novel “What’s Left Of Me Is Yours” to be published on 21st April, and listed in The Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MSt alumna Stephanie Scott’s novel What’s Left Of Me Is Yours <\/em>will be published on 21st April, simultaneously in the USA, Canada, UK & Commonwealth. Stephanie has also been named one of The Observer’s ‘Ten Best Debut Novelists for 2020’ .<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the novel (from the publication announcement<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, for readers of Everything I Never Told You<\/em> and The Perfect Nanny<\/em>, What\u2019s Left of Me Is Yours <\/em>charts a young woman\u2019s search for the truth about her mother\u2019s life\u2013and her murder.<\/strong>

In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the \u201cwakaresaseya\u201d (literally \u201cbreaker-upper\u201d), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Sat\u014d hires Kaitar\u014d, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an easy case. But Sat\u014d has never truly understood Rina or her desires and Kaitar\u014d\u2019s job is to do exactly that\u2013until he does it too well. While Rina remains ignorant of the circumstances that brought them together, she and Kaitar\u014d fall in a desperate, singular love, setting in motion a series of violent acts that will forever haunt her daughter\u2019s life.

Told from alternating points of view and across the breathtaking landscapes of Japan, Stephanie Scott exquisitely renders the affair and its intricate repercussions. As Rina\u2019s daughter, Sumiko, fills in the gaps of her mother\u2019s story and her own memory, Scott probes the thorny psychological and moral grounds of the actions we take in the name of love, asking where we draw the line between passion and possession.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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