Flowers From Fukushima

by Clive Lawton

Overview

With the last remaining flowers from his grandmother's shop, an eight year old boy decides to make a delivery that will take him across a Japan devastated by natural disasters. Left alone with just an unknown address to guide him, Ryo must learn not only how to survive, but how to make sense of a changing world.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044485075
Publisher:	Clive Lawton
Publication date:	04/16/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	231 KB

About the Author

Clive Lawton was born in Surrey, England, on 3 October 1977. He graduated in English Literature from the University of Southampton in 2001 and received his PGCE from the University of London to teach English at post-compulsory level the following year.

After teaching English Literature and Language in West London, he went on to assist the learning and development of children with special needs before moving to Japan in July 2006. His first job in Japan was for a private Language School in the heart of Shinjuku, Tokyo. Experiences from this period make up what later became Japanese Journal, some of which is featured on his website and recounts his first year in Japan.

In early 2008, Clive was again teaching English as a foreign language to international students in Guernsey, Channel Islands. By the Summer he was back in East Asia having taken on a marketing role in Taiwan, but this was also to be a rather brief stop-gap. After another year back home in the UK, he returned to Japan in the Spring of 2010. Initially staying in Tokyo, he accepted a teaching position in the town of Tsuchiura in Ibaraki, about 50 miles north of the capital.

At the time of the Fukushima earthquake on 11 March 2011, Clive was in Central Tokyo, but in the days following the disaster managed to travel back into Ibaraki where there was a far greater level of destruction. His experiences and those of others he knew and met at that time, formed the basis for the novel 'Flowers From Fukushima'.