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Izumi needs to get a job.

Haruka needs to stop talking about how she once had cancer.

Kat¿ needs to get through a shift at the convenience store without being harassed.

Mito needs to break up with her boyfriend - or marry him.

Sumie just needs somewhere to live.In this classic Japanese bestseller, published in English twenty-five years after it took Japan by storm, the lives of five ordinary women are depicted with irresistible humour and searing emotional insight. [quotes tk]

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