MongrelAn exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives unspool in unexpected directions. Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in with her peers, suppressing both her heritage and her growing love for her best friend Fran. Yuki leaves her parents farm in the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist.