Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Book 1 of 6

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.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heart-warming Before the Coffee Gets Cold, 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?

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.

Meet the Four Visitors

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
• Finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold