<p><b>The first book in the multi-million copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.<br> <br> Toshikazu Kawaguchi's heart-warming <i>Before the Coffee Gets Cold,</i> 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?</b><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Prepare to meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe's time-travelling offer in order to:<br> - confront the man who left them<br> - receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by Alzheimer's<br> - see their sister one last time, and<br> - meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.<br> <br> 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 . . .<br> <br> <b>'This book broke my heart, took the pieces, and put them back together in a messy and beautiful way. . . '<br> -@well.read.woman on Instagram</b><br> <br> <b>Continue the beautifully moving storytelling with <i>Tales from the Cafe,</i> <i>Before Your Memory Fades</i>, <i>Before We Say Goodbye</i> and <i>Before We Forget Kindness</i>.</b></p>