Publication Date: 19/09/2019 ISBN: 9781529029581 Category:

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication Date: 19/09/2019 ISBN: 9781529029581 Category:
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A Tokyo coffee shop offering time travel should be mobbed every day of the week, right? Wrong. When there are so many arbitrary restrictions – not least of which being the cardinal rule that you have to drink up and return to the present day before your coffee gets cold – few can be bothered to fulfil all the criteria required. For those that do, though, there is the offer of a precious second chance to make right those missed opportunities in life.

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The million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s uplifting Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?

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

Prepare to meet the next four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe’s time-travelling offer in order to:
– confront the man who left them
– receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by Alzheimer’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 sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

‘This book broke my heart, took the pieces, and put them back together in a messy and beautiful way. . . ‘
-@well.read.woman on Instagram

Continue the beautifully moving storytelling with Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye and Before We Forget Kindness – all out now!

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