I wrote my novel Lizzie Goes to Japan in 1997 and 1998, following several business trips to Tokyo. Lizzie is a single mother in her late thirties, who works for a software company. The company sends her to Tokyo on a series of business trips. On the first trip, she finds herself in a compromising situation after a brief affair with her boss, and is comforted by Colin MacArthur, a fellow colleague in the Japanese office.
Colin tells Lizzie that he is in the middle of a divorce, and that he would like to see her and take her out in Tokyo. Inadvertently, Lizzie falls in love with Colin, who has in fact not been totally honest with her. He is neither going through a divorce nor is he able to meet her very often. The novel follows Lizzie's adventures in Tokyo and her many talks with Colin, who turns out to be not all that he initially seems.
I used my general experiences in Tokyo as the background for the novel but the actual events are fictional.
So far, these are the excerpts from the novel that I have placed on this blog:
The Glass History Museum
In The Tokyo Bay Coffee Lounge
The Big Fat Hen
The People's Princess
