Hanako Footman is a British-Japanese author and actor. She grew up in Wimbledon and trained at LAMDA. She now lives in Dalston, East London. As a child she spent her school holidays in Japan, at her grandmother's house by the sea. She tries to go back whenever she can. Hanako's debut novel Mongrel was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize in 2024.

Sensational books transcend the very form they elevate by delivering a purity ofthought with seeming effortlessness and here, in Mongrel, Hanako Footman conveysthe truth of the world in lucid but spinning, transcendental sentences. It's so beautifulthat I became lost in it, and I can't find the right words because they are all in thisbook. Simply, it must be read

Hanako Footman is a British-Japanese author and actor. She grew up in Wimbledon and trained at LAMDA. She now lives in Dalston, East London. As a child she spent her school holidays in Japan, at her grandmother's house by the sea. She tries to go back whenever she can. Hanako's debut novel Mongrel was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize in 2024.

Sensational books transcend the very form they elevate by delivering a purity ofthought with seeming effortlessness and here, in Mongrel, Hanako Footman conveysthe truth of the world in lucid but spinning, transcendental sentences. It's so beautifulthat I became lost in it, and I can't find the right words because they are all in thisbook. Simply, it must be read

Hanako Footman is a British-Japanese author and actor. She grew up in Wimbledon and trained at LAMDA. She now lives in Dalston, East London. As a child she spent her school holidays in Japan, at her grandmother's house by the sea. She tries to go back whenever she can. Hanako's debut novel Mongrel was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize in 2024.

Sensational books transcend the very form they elevate by delivering a purity ofthought with seeming effortlessness and here, in Mongrel, Hanako Footman conveysthe truth of the world in lucid but spinning, transcendental sentences. It's so beautifulthat I became lost in it, and I can't find the right words because they are all in thisbook. Simply, it must be read