Signed First Edition - Earthlings: EARTHLINGS / FOYLES SIGNED ED

Get a date in your diary for Earthlings, the brand new novel from Sayaka Murata—author of the phenomenal, bestselling, Foyles Book of the Year award-winning Convenience Store Woman—available to preorder now in signed first edition.

Eleven-year-old Natsuki is a dumpster. Her mum treats her like an idiot; her spoilt sister is the favourite, and Natsuki works hard to do what adults want because without her the family would be happy. She’s in love with her cousin, Yuu, who is also an outsider. Yuu is the only one that understands her - because he is an alien and she is a magician whose powers were given to her by Piyyut, an envoy from Planet Popinpobopia who looks like a cuddly toy.

Years later, Natsuki has left Piyyut behind. She’s married to a stranger she found online, sexless allies in hiding against the Factory—the rows and rows of baby-making houses who want you to conform. But the Factory is reaching out for them, through the guise of their families and friends; they never stop until they break you.

A brilliant, bold, shocking novel of difference and conformity, acquiescence and resistance, Earthlings follows the life of a categorical outsider as she strives to find herself on truly individual terms. After violent abuse schisms her further from shared reality, Natsuki and her fellow outsiders flee the Factory and build a life together in opposition to the Earthlings—a life of brutal logic and taboo that escalates to a simply unforgettable climax.

The magic of childhood, societal pressure, psychosis and difference and liberty: this is a novel that has cult classic written all over it—and is sure to deliver an adrenaline shot right into the heart of your reading list.