Syou Ishida

Syou Ishida is a Japanese novelist, born in Kyoto in 1975. She began writing while working for a telecommunications company; her first novel, Tomato Sensei, won Japan's grand prize for love stories in 2014. She is known worldwide for the Kokoro clinic books, set in a surgery hidden at the end of a Kyoto alley where the doctor prescribes not medicine but cats. Rights have been sold in twenty-five countries; the English editions are We'll Prescribe You a Cat, We'll Prescribe You Another Cat and Welcome to the Kokoro Cat Clinic.