The Dilemmas of Working Women

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Izumi needs to get a job. Haruka needs to stop talking about how she once had cancer. Kato needs to get through a shift at the convenience store without being harassed. Mito needs to break up with her boyfriend – or marry him. Sumie just needs somewhere to live. In this classic Japanese bestseller, published in English 25 years after it took Japan by storm, the lives of five ordinary women are depicted with irresistible humour and searing emotional insight.

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The classic Japanese bestseller published in English for the very first time – a darkly funny and relatable book portraying the lives of five women

‘Witty, wise and thought-provoking’ Cecelia Ahern
‘Crackles and pops with humour, empathy and intelligence’ Lisa Owens, author of Not Working
‘So brilliantly written that I kept trying to memorise sentences in order to repeat them to people later’ Roxy Dunn, author of As Young as This

Izumi needs to get a job.
Haruka needs to stop talking about how she once had cancer.
Kato needs to get through a shift at the convenience store without being harassed.
Mito needs to break up with her boyfriend – or marry him.
Sumie just needs somewhere to live.

In this classic Japanese bestseller, published in English twenty-five years after it took Japan by storm, the lives of five ordinary women are depicted with irresistible humour and searing emotional insight.

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