The Woman in the Purple Skirt: A Novel

'It will keep you firmly in its grips.' — OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE

The Woman in the Purple Skirt is being watched. Someone is following her, always perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes; what she eats; whom she speaks to. But this invisible observer isn't a stalker - it's much more complicated than that.

'Disquieting & wryly funny, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is a taut & compelling depiction of loneliness & obsession.' —  PAULA HAWKINS

'Very powerful . . . Reading this book made me feel like I was in an unstable & strange world.' — SAYAKA MURATA

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Natsuko Imamura was born in Hiroshima Prefecture. She has won the Osamu Dazai Prize, the Yukio Mishima Prize & the Akutagawa Prize for her fiction, which in addition to This is Amiko includes The Woman in the Purple Skirt. She lives in Osaka with her husband & daughter.