Before the Coffee Gets Cold: The cosy million-copy sensation from Japan: 1

The cosy, heartwarming first book in the multi-million copy bestselling series.

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

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 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 ‐ 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, Before We Forget Kindness and Before I knew I loved you.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 15 March 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1035035057
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1035035052
Reading age ‏ : ‎ Customer suggested age: 15 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 184 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 1.2 x 19.7 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom
Importer ‏ : ‎ 1st Floor, Mehra Centre, 5 Krishanlal Marwah Marg, Marwah Industrial Estate,Saki Vihar Road (Saki Naka), Mumbai – 400072
Packer ‏ : ‎ Pan Macmillan Publishing India Private Limited
Generic Name ‏ : ‎ Book
Book 1 of 6 ‏ : ‎ Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Best Sellers Rank: #242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Science Fiction Short Stories #1 in Humorous Science Fiction (Books) #1 in Time Travel Fiction
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