Butter

Asako Yuzuki

'Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable ... Butter will churn your brain and your stomach with panache' Pandora Sykes, author of How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?

'An unputdownable, breathtakingly original novel ... I will be spoon-feeding Butter to every woman I know' Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key

'I have been glued to Asako Yuzuki's new novel Butter ... contains delicious descriptions' Nigel Slater, Guardian Feast newsletter

'Exuberant, indulgent romp of a novel ... Butter is a full-fat, Michelin-starred treat that moves seamlessly between an Angry Young Woman narrative and an engrossing detective drama and back again. Yuzuki has crafted an almost Dickensian cast of fleshy characters, with just as many surprise connections ... Let this book bring you under its spell' The Times

'Ambitious and unsettling ... a thought-provoking and surprisingly feelgood take on friendship, transgressive pleasures, and society's impossibly contradictory expectations of women' Guardian

'Yuzuki uses luscious food writing to fuel a nuanced and intelligent exploration of contemporary womanhood ... I devoured this dark and delicious novel' Imogen Crimp, author of A Very Nice Girl

'A delectable meditation on appetite, fatphobia and misogyny in modern Japan ... a salty morsel with one hell of a bite' Alice Slater, author of Death of A Bookseller

'Yuzuki evokes a cold and alienating world' Financial Times

'This Japanese novel, which has become quite the cult phenomenon, is nothing short of ingenious' iNews

'A book that interrogates misogyny and obsession through the prism of food' Monocle

'Food, gender and violence are explored in this delicious novel' i-D

'It'll make your mouth water' Irish Independent