Niki Chesworth

Advantages: Well-written and a little creepy
Disadvantages: Deals with suicide

...to the US. Etsuko, pregnant with Keiko at the time, is concerned at her friend's neglect of Mariko, especially when there have been a series of recent child murders. Mariko is a strange child, happiest when she is with her kittens, and often rude to people. During the course of the book, it becomes clear that there are a number of similarities between Etsuko's life and that of Sachiko's. The characters Etsuko is deliberately vaguely portrayed. She seems to have lost her family when Nagasaki was bombed during the war and was adopted by Ogata-san. Eventually she marries Ogata-san's son, Jiro and becomes pregnant with her first child. At some point in her life, although it is only implied, she moves to England with her daughter Keiko, Jiro's child, her second husband, who appears to be English and Niki, their daughter together. Keiko clearly... Read review

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