Woman, Eating

By: Claire Kohda

Narrated by: Katie Leung

A Best Book of the Year in HARPER'S BAZAAR, BBC, THE NEW YORKER, GLAMOUR, GAL-DEM and HUFFPOST

Lydia is hungry. She's 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 can't bring herself to prey on humans, and sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London - where she is living away from her Malaysian-British mother for the first time and trying to build a career as an artist - is much more difficult than she'd 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.

©2022 Claire Kohda (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

"Absolutely brilliant - tragic, funny, eccentric.... Claire Kohda takes the vampire trope and makes it her own." (Ruth Ozeki)

"Witty and thought-provoking." (Stylist)

"A modern day vampire thriller." (BBC)