This week, we’re giving away three copies of The Wrong Daughter by Dandy Smith. When a woman claiming to be Olivia reappears decades after vanishing, her sister Caitlin is forced to confront the traumatic night she disappeared—and the secrets she’s kept ever since. But is this really Olivia? And what
Emma Pei Yin has always loved stories, and she was constantly creating characters and worlds in her head. When she went looking for those stories on bookshelves, however, she discovered that there were hardly any Asian voices being published. So she decided to write her own – and the result is her debut novel, When Sleeping Women Wake – releasing in 2025 in Australia through publishers Hachette, in the UK via Quercus Books, and in the US through Ballantine.
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