What a riot! Yellowface is like rubbernecking a crime scene. Deliciously ghastly, impossible to look away.

Set in the world of publishing, Rebecca F. Kuang’s Yellowface is the darkly comic tale of young author and narrator June Hayward, and the manuscript she steals from her dead friend.

It’s a toe-curling satire in which everything in the world of books and publishing gets well and truly skewered. I was glued to the first half in particular.

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