Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. She is the author of the multi-million-copy bestselling What You Are Looking For is in the Library,which was a Time Book of the Year, a Times bestseller and a New York Times Book of the Month. Her latest novel to be translated into English, Hot Chocolate on Thursday, is her debut, which tells of the Marble Cafe, a tiny community cafe in Tokyo, and is set partly in Japan and partly in Sydney, Australia. It is a companion read to Matcha on Monday, coming soon in translation. Another book available in English by Aoyama is the international bestseller The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park. Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.