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Before Your Memory Fades: A Novel

40 Ratings

3.8

Duration
6H 30min
Language
English
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Fiction

The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time.

On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is fabled for its dazzling views of Hakodate port. But that’s not all. Like the charming Tokyo cafe Funiculi Funicula, Cafe Donna Donna offers its customers the extraordinary experience of travelling through time.

From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of the cafe's time-travelling offer. Among some familiar faces from Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s previous novels, readers will also be introduced to: • A daughter who begrudges her deceased parents for leaving her orphaned • A comedian who aches for his beloved and their shared dreams • A younger sister whose grief has become all-consuming • A young man who realizes his love for his childhood friend too late Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot and featuring signature heart-warming characters and wistful storytelling, in Before Your Memory Fades, Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?

Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1)Tales from the Cafe (Book 2)Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3)Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4)Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5)Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)

© 2022 Harlequin Audio (Audiobook): 9781488215315

Release date

Audiobook: 15 November 2022

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