In the Empire of Dreams

Over the course of a year, the lives of three expatriate women--Elaine, an American scholar of Japanese Buddhism; Cathy, an Australian studying Japanese crafts; and Liz, escaping an uphappy past--intertwine with one another and with the Japanese people among whom they live. Tour.

Dianne Highbridge was born and raised in Sydney where she went to university. After working in London bookshops for a time, she became a postgraduate student at the University of London. She then received a scholarship to the University of Tokyo to study the early twentieth century women's movement took her to Japan. Married in New York to a Japanese industrial designer, she has lived in Tokyo for a number of years. She has received grants from the Australia Council Literature Board and her stories and journalism have appeared in England, Australia, and the United States.