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If I Had Your Face: `Assured, bold, and electrifying` Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX
`Absolutely stunning. . . Assured, bold, and electrifying` Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX `One of the buzziest debuts of the year, If I Had Your Face transports readers to glittering, futuristic Seoul… Essential reading` VogueIf I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary Seoul – a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women compete for spots in secret `room salons` to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours, where K-Pop stars are the object of all-consuming obsession, and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move.Navigating this hyper-competitive city are four young women balancing on the razor-edge of survival: Kyuri, an exquisitely beautiful woman whose hard-won status at an exclusive `room salon` is threatened by an impulsive mistake with a client; her flatmate Miho, an orphan who wins a scholarship to a prestigious art school in New York, where her life becomes tragically enmeshed with the super-wealthy offspring of the Korean elite; Wonna, their neighbour, pregnant with a child that she and her husband have no idea how they will afford to raise in a fiercely competitive economy; and Ara, a hair stylist living down the hall, whose infatuation with a fresh-faced K-Pop star drives her to violent extremes. `A brilliant debut` Pandora Sykes, The High Low Podcast`Culturally fascinating, emotionally layered, gripping and smart` Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of RODHAM`Remarkable, brilliantly crafted and devastatingly exquisite` Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of CRAZY RICH ASIANS`A stunning debut` Sunday Times `Fascinating, eye-opening, compelling – like the film Parasite, If I Had Your Face is also an expose of the class system in South Korea` Independent