The Woman in the Purple Skirt

'Chilling.' Vogue



'As unusual as it is alluring.' Elle



'Delightfully disturbing.' Refinery 29



'Very powerful.' Sayaka Murata



'Disquieting.' Paula Hawkins



'You will be obsessed.' Leila Slimani



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.



Natsuko Imamura was born in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1980. Her fiction has won various prestigious Japanese literary prizes, including the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize. She lives in Osaka with her husband and daughter.



Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined.