Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Themillion-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers itsvisitors the chance to travel back in time.

Toshikazu Kawaguchis heart-warmingBefore the Coffee Gets Cold,translatedfrom Japanese, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you couldtravel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe forone last time?

In a cosy back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefullybrewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers itscustomers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

Prepare to meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafestime-travelling offer in order to:
– confront the man who left them
– receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken byAlzheimer’s
– see their sister one last time, and
– meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sitin a particular seat, they cannot leave the cafe, and finally, they must returnto the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

This book broke my heart, took the pieces, and put them back together in amessy and beautiful way. . . ‘
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Continue the beautifully moving storytelling withTales from theCafe,Before Your Memory Fades,Before We SayGoodbyeandBefore We Forget Kindness.