When Sleeping Women Wake

When Sleeping Women Wake is the debut novel from Emma Pei Yin. An epic and emotional story of three spirited women – a mother, her daughter, and their maid – during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, this novel explores the unbreakable bonds that unite women.

Be one of the first to read this book, which is already getting buzz from Emma Pei Yin’s literary peers:

‘A breathtaking, important story of family, love and endurance told with unflinching clarity and beauty, this is historical fiction at its finest. I urge you to read this book’
WIZ WHARTON

‘I devoured Emma Pei Yin’s heart-rending, transportive, and action-packed When Sleeping Women Wake in a single day’
ASHTON LATTIMORE

‘With vivid historicity and deeply relatable characters, When Sleeping Women Wake is a lushly romantic and impassioned story of women’s agency and resilience’
JUHEA KIM

‘Emma Pei Yin weaves a spellbinding tale of transformation and the quiet power of awakening. A novel of depth and nuance, When Sleeping Women Wake lingers in the mind long after the final page’
AYESHA INOON

‘All the things I love in a book: strong women, untold history and a rollicking story’
VICTORIA PURMAN

When Sleeping Women Wake was acquired jointly by Hachette Australia and Quercus UK in 2024, with North American and Italian rights also acquired in a pre-empt by Ballantine and Garzanti, respectively.

When Sleeping Women Wake by Emma Pei Yin

Trade Paperback | 9780733652875 | RRP $32.99

Out 25 June from Hachette Australia

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