Faber acquires Momo Yamaguchi’s infatuating debut novel Hello, Limerence
10 December 2025
Meet your new personal obsession: Momo Yamaguchi’s Hello, Limerence.
Part of Faber’s outstanding class of debuts for 2026, Hello, Limerence is a novel for anyone who has ever had a crush. An unflinching and vivacious exploration of sex, sexuality, love and power, publication is scheduled for 4 June 2026.
Associate Publisher Louisa Joyner acquired UK & Commonwealth + EU (ex Canada) rights from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein on behalf of Kent Wolf at Neon Literary.
Mika is about to turn twenty-five, and all she has to show for it is a soul-sucking office job and a terminal case of virginity. Between the pervy salarymen she works with and the pretty boys she pines after, Mika is ready to explode.
But it’s summer in Tokyo, AKA peacock season. Time to strut her stuff. So when her certified Hot Girl bestie sends her the invite for an upcoming beach party, Mika clicks ‘attending’. Just when she thinks real life is never going to live up to the wild fantasies her imagination cooks up, someone new catches her eye. It could be limerence, or the beginning of something much less one-sided . . .
Joyner said:
‘Momo Yamaguchi’s novel had me at ‘Limerence’ (once I’d looked it up because I’m too old to know what it means intuitively). A wild ride: intense, hilarious, moving and also weird in the best ways. I am so excited to share a debut that helps recognise the propensity to limerence in all of us.’
Yamaguchi said:
‘I feel so lucky to be working with Louisa Joyner and Jessica Vestuto, along with the rest of our amazing team at Faber and Mariner. Eternal thanks to my agent, Kent Wolf, for believing in me in the first place. Hello, Limerence is for limerents and limerent objects alike, and I’m so excited for readers to meet Mika.’
Momo Yamaguchi was born in Tokyo and educated in the US. After spontaneously entering and winning a Japanese lottery to win a temporary visa, allowing her to work and live in the UK, she made her way to South London. Hello, Limerence is her first novel.