美雨垣谷

Japan

born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1959. Her debut work, the 2005 novel Tatsumaki garul (Tornado Girl), won the 27th Mystery Novel Newcomer Award. Her writing includes Rogo no shikin ga arimasen (I Don’t Have Any Money Left in My Retirement Account), Uchi no ko ga kekkon shinai node (Because My Child Will Not Marry), Anata no jinsei, katazukemasu (I’ll Clean Up Your Life), No garul, no laifu (Farm Girl, Farm Life), Otto no haka niwa hairimasen (I Won’t Have My Ashes Placed in My Husband’s Gravestone), and Teinen oyaji kaizo keikaku (Retired Old Man Replanning). The Regret Ward is the first part of the Ward series that includes The Hope Ward and The Prison Ward