My Beautiful Shadow

I have a secret.

I belong to a club.

And my club is the biggest best kept secret in all of Tokyo.

Kayo-chan goes about her life raising a family and coping with inquisitive neighbours in a claustrophobic suburban neighbourhood in Japan.

One day her husband hands her a credit card.

Her first purchase: a Louis Vuitton tote bag worth 200000 yen.

Thrilled by the comfort of this buy Kayo ventures out a few days later to acquire a few more things. And before she knows it the need has become a hunger an obsession that threatens to take over completely. Then a chance meeting reunites her with her childhood friend Tomoko and she is swept into a world of glamour and fashion she finds irresistible.

Until the phone calls begin.

My Beautiful Shadow is a powerful novel about one woman's addiction and entrapment and a mesmerizing tale of consumerism gone mad.