Please Form Pairs

Trade Paperback

Squid Game meets Mean Girls

<h5>SQUID GAME MEETS MEAN GIRLS</h5>

<h4>THE #1 JAPANESE HIT ABOUT KEEPING UP AND STAYING (BARELY) ALIVE IN A GIRL-EAT-GIRL WORLD</h4>

<h5>A QUARTER OF A MILLION COPIES SOLD</h5>

Mishin Mizushima isn't nearly kawaii enough by Tokyo standards. Her developmentally stunted mum isn't a fan either, ditching her in their micro-apartment to shack up with a sugar daddy.

Her story is one of thousands in a city where towering alpha females move and think as a single, terrifyingly beautiful organism with the perfect double-eyelid surgery. The betas know to lay low. The rest grovel at the feet of the sparkly food chain.

In one school, a battle erupts between the barbies when the substitute teacher dares to question the natural order. In the wisdom of Hello Kitty, "you can never have too many friends" - and everyone knows the best way to make friends is to play a game...

An unhinged parable for the age of live-streaming, Please Form Pairs is a bestselling survival drama where every girl must play by three rules: keep up, be liked, and stay (barely) alive in a girl-eat-girl world.