A Tokyo Cafe Serves Time Travel, Love and Regret
Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beloved cafe offers four more time-travel stories where love, regret and second chances meet before the coffee cools. Gentle, reflective readers will be drawn to its quiet rules, emotional clarity and the comfort of revisiting unfinished conversations.
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Before I Knew I Loved You
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A Tokyo Cafe Serves Time Travel, Love and Regret
Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beloved cafe offers four more time-travel stories where love, regret and second chances meet before the coffee cools. Gentle, reflective readers will be drawn to its quiet rules, emotional clarity and the comfort of revisiting unfinished conversations.
- Book Synopsis
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The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.
In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible - not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to go back in time to revisit the ones you love...
In Before I knew I loved you, Toshikazu Kawaguchi takes us back to the warm heart of the mysterious Funiculi Funicula Cafe, with another four guests whose luminous stories of love, lost and won again, will reaffirm your belief in its eternal potential.
In this book, we meet:
- The girl who wishes to make amends with the mother she never accepted
- The man who waited for a reply from his girlfriend, and never heard from her
- The woman anxious to travel ahead to know what her future holds
- The student who travels back to meet his father again, who passed away many years before.
Yet the same rules always apply - you must return before the coffee gets cold.
And while it does, memories are revisited, people are changed forever, and the enduring power of love transcends the boundaries of time.
The sixth book in the phenomenal, bestselling series, translated from Japanese, Before I knew I loved you asks the irresistible question: what would you do if you were offered the chance to go back in time?
Ideal for readers who:
- Return to the Funiculi Funicula Cafe for gentle time-travel consolation.
- Connect with linked stories about love that was missed, delayed or left unsaid.
- Respond to magical rules that make quiet decisions feel urgent and meaningful.
- Turn to tender Japanese fiction for grief, hope and emotional second chances.
- About The Author
- Toshikazu Kawaguchi was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He formerly produced, directed and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song and Family Time. The novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold is adapted from a 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize. It was followed by Tales From the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye, Before We Forget Kindness and Before I knew I loved you.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781035046300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Picador, (21 May 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 240
- Weight
- 182 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 133 x 17 mm
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