Jackie Copleton Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Jackie Copleton is a published author.

Her debut novel is the book A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding. It was inspired by the time that she spent living in Nagasaki in the nineties after finishing up a degree in English at Cambridge University.

The book did well and was a Richard and Judy summer book club pick. It was also longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction while also being a Radio 2 Book Club pick.

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding is a 2015 book by Jackie Copleton. If you have been looking for a new book to add to your to-read list, check out this book which will be great for people who are also fans of The Piano Teacher and the book Memoirs of a Geisha. Going into themes of forgiveness, family, and the pain of love, check out this story to follow along with every word.

Amaterasu Takahashi opens the door of her home in Philadelphia to find a man who has been badly scarred saying that he is her grandson. But from the very start, she doesn’t believe him. Her grandson as well as her daughter Yujo died when Nagasaki was first bombed forty years ago and she believes that they did not survive.

Despite this, the man has with him a collection of sealed private letters that have been able to open a Pandora’s Box of family secrets that Ama had said that she would leave behind when she left Japan. To deal with everything, she is going to have to deal with the memories that she has of the years before the war.

Ama must remember the daughter that she did her best to protect and the love affair that ended up pushing them apart. Then she goes even further back to the long nights pouring sake at a hostess bar, the place that she first found out that a soft heart was something dangerous. Can Ana let herself believe in a miracle being possible or is this some type of horrible scam? Read this book from Jackie Copleton to find out what happens in the end!