Clara Kumagai is from Ireland, Japan and Canada. Catfish Rolling, her debut novel, was a 2024 YOTO Carnegie Medal nominee, and winner of the 2024 KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year. Her second novel, Songs for Ghosts, was published in March 2025. She lives and writes in Ireland.clarakumagai.com [SECRETBAR] Instagram:@clarakiyoko
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This genre-bending YA novel follows a boy who finds a century-old diary written by a young woman in Nagasaki, Japan—and becomes haunted by her vengeful spirit. When Adam discovers a diary in his attic, he is enthralled by its account of a young w... SEE MORE