Books by Hiroko Sherwin

Hiroko Sherwin was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1936 and was evacuated to the countryside when the city was bombed during the Second World War. At university, she fell in love with her cousin, a physicist and after graduation followed him to the United States where they were married in 1962. Settling in Princeton, where her three daughters were born, Hiroko Sherwin served as a special correspondent for Yomuiri, a Japanese newspaper, took up painting and also wrote three books in Japanese about American women. Her daughter Mako Yoshikawa is an accomplished novelist. After some twenty years of marriage, Hiroko Sherwin and her husband became divorced, and she married an American businessman in 1986. They lived in Switzerland for eight years, before moving to England in 1999, and now live near Bath with their two cats and two alpacas.