Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Groundswell Speaker 2024 and with his trademark humour

and with his trademark humour

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Dr Emily Leeming is a registered dietitian and Research Fellow at King’s College London

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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Groundswell Speaker 2024 and with his trademark humourThe haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world. Autumn 1969, and soon I would be 20. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion,