[1] Her father, a seller of art books and encyclopedias, moved the family to Okayama, where Harada experienced bullying from her school classmates and started writing stories to combat her isolation.
Her 2007 novel Ippunkan dake (一分間だけ, Only a Moment) was later adapted into 2014 film of the same name, made in Taiwan and released nationwide in Japan.
[10] Her 2010 novel Honjitsu wa ohigara mo yoku (本日は、お日柄もよく, Today is a Good Day), about a woman whose romantic setbacks lead her to success as a speechwriter, was later adapted into the 2017 Wowow TV drama starring Manami Higa and Kyoko Hasegawa.
In 2013 Harada's novel Jiveruni no shokutaku (ジヴェルニーの食卓, Dinner Tables of Giverny), a work of historical fiction that tells stories about French painters Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cézanne from the perspective of women in their lives, was nominated for the 149th Naoki Prize.
[20] In 2018 her book Sweet Home (スイート・ホーム, Suīto hōmu), a collection of linked stories about a neighborhood pastry shop, was published by Popurasha.