
Before I Knew I Loved You
Hanover Square Press · Hardcover · Forthcoming
The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cozy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.
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- Who it’s for
- Tender stories make time travel a doorway to love, regret, and reconnection.
- Genres
- Time Travel Fiction, Magical Realism, Japanese Fiction
- Published
- Hanover Square Press, Forthcoming
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The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cozy 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...
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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 couldn’t call her mother, and yearns to reconnect with her - 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 for ever, 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? 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)
Time, Tenderly
Tender stories make time travel a doorway to love, regret, and reconnection.
Come here for
- Gentle speculative fiction grounded in family ties and unfinished conversations
- A warm return to the café’s time-bending premise
Expect
- Four guests facing love, loss, and the chance to reconnect
- A tender, wistful tone around memory and the people we miss
Where it sits
| Time Travel Fiction | 63% |
|---|---|
| Japanese Fiction | 43% |
| Magical Realism | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Fantasy
- Literary Fiction
- Time Travel Fiction
- Multigenerational Family Stories
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- Magical Realism
- Small-Town Fiction
- Friendship
- Multiple-Timeline Fiction
- Authors
- Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Publisher
- Hanover Square Press
- Published
- Forthcoming
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Fantasy