Every page of Rebecca F Kuang’s Yellowface had me internally groaning and pulling ugly faces. The fact I kept reading is a testament to the author’s ability to write a gripping story held together by a morally bankrupt plot and unlikable characters.
Yellowface is a rollercoaster tale of greed, lies and the perils of social media and the publishing industry. Writers, you may wish to read it in the bath with a bottle of gin, crying over your soggy, unpublished manuscript. Don’t eat the pancakes.