A linked historical novel set in late-Edo Yoshiwara, portraying the loves and fates of courtesans. It reveals pain and desire behind the splendor of the pleasure quarter in dense prose.

Within fragile and cruel fates, the courtesans try to make their own flowers bloom.

なくこころとさびしさを is a 女による女のためのR-18文学賞の優秀賞作品 by 清瀬マオ. It is treated as an individual prize work, while no standalone book or paperback publication is identifiable.

なくこころとさびしさを is known as a prize-recognized work.