A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016</b><br><b>A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK </b><br><b><br><i>'Memoirs of a Geisha</i> meets <i>The Piano Teacher</i><i>, </i>in the best way.'<i> InStyle</i><br></b><br>Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.<br><br> Now a widow living in America, she believes that one man was responsible for her loss; a local doctor who caused an irreparable rift between mother and daughter.<br><br> When a man claiming to be Hideo arrives on her doorstep, she is forced to revisit the past; the hurt and humiliation of her early life, the intoxication of a first romance and the realisation that if she had loved her daughter in a different way, she might still be alive today.</p> <p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016</b><br><b>A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK </b><br><b><br><i>'Memoirs of a Geisha</i> meets <i>The Piano Teacher</i><i>, </i>in the best way.'<i> InStyle</i><br></b><br>Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.<br><br> Now a widow living in America, she believes that one man was responsible for her loss; a local doctor who caused an irreparable rift between mother and daughter.<br><br> When a man claiming to be Hideo arrives on her doorstep, she is forced to revisit the past; the hurt and humiliation of her early life, the intoxication of a first romance and the realisation that if she had loved her daughter in a different way, she might still be alive today.</p>