Epic history and romance combine in a passionate, exotic novel featuring the mysterious mistress of the last shogun emperor.
Lesley Downer's mother was Chinese and her father a professor of
Chinese, so she grew up in a house full of books on Asia. But it
was Japan, not China, that proved the more alluring, and she lived
there for some fifteen years.
She has written many books about the country and its culture,
including Geisha- The Secret History of a Vanishing World, and
Madame Sadayakko- The Geisha who Seduced the West, and has
presented television programmes on Japan for Channel 4, the BBC and
NHK.
She lives in London with her husband, the author Arthur I. Miller,
and still makes sure she goes to Japan every year.
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