{"product_id":"hooked-by-asako-yuzuki-2026304022","title":"Hooked by Asako Yuzuki","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eEriko's life appears perfect - devoted parents, pristine apartment and a high-flying job in the seafood division of one of Japan's largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious. But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by a housewife, Shoko. Shoko's posts about eating convenience-store food and her untidy home are the opposite of the typical Japanese housewife's manicured lifestyle. When Eriko tracks Shoko down at her favourite restaurant and befriends her, Shoko is at first charmed by her new companion. But soon Eriko's obsession with Shoko begins to spiral out of control, threatening her carefully laid plans. How far will she go to hold on to the best friend she's ever had?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully translated by Polly Barton, Hooked is an unsettling story of the line between friendship and dangerous obsession, and a delicious exploration of food, loneliness and womanhood in contemporary Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOther Information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eAsako Yuzuki is the author of Butter, her first novel translated into English, which became a no.1 Sunday Times bestseller. It won Waterstones Book of the Year 2024, the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award and Fiction Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, among other accolades. She won the All Yomimono Award for New Writers for her story, 'Forget Me, Not Blue', which appeared in her debut, Shuuten No Anoko. She has been nominated multiple times for the Naoki Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio and film.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ASDA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48333838614766,"sku":"STO-ITEM-2026-304022","price":14.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/0125\/9183\/files\/9780008753832_T1.jpg?v=1784248401","url":"https:\/\/mcgrocer.com\/products\/hooked-by-asako-yuzuki-2026304022","provider":"McGrocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}