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A Best Book of the Year in HARPERS BAZAAR BBC THE NEW YORKER GLAMOUR GALDEM and HUFFPOST

Witty and thoughtprovoking Stylist
Blistering Glamour
Unusual original and strikingly contemporary Guardian
Absolutely brilliant Ruth Ozeki
A gripping contemporary fable about embracing difference The Times
A wholly 21st century take on bloodsucking Observer

Lydia is hungry Shes always wanted to try sashimi and ramen onigiri and udon the food her Japanese father liked to eat but the only thing she can digest is blood Yet Lydia cant bring herself to prey on humans and sourcing fresh pigs blood in London where she is living away from her MalaysianBritish mother for the first time and trying to build a career as an artist is much more difficult than shed anticipated
If Lydia is to find a way to exist in the world she must reconcile the conflicts within her between her demon and human sides her mixed ethnic heritage and her relationship with food and in turn humans Before any of this however she must eat

Its Kohdas exploration of Lydias inner world the pain and longing she feels as an outsider that makes Woman Eating such a delicious novel New York Times Book Review

A profound meditation on alienation and appetite and what it means to be a young woman who experiences life at an acute level of intensity and awareness LISA HARDING

What Stoker did for the vampire at the end of the nineteenth century Claire Kohda does for for it in our own era TLS