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Before I Knew I Loved You
The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold 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...
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?
Before I Knew I Loved You
Before I Knew I Loved You
Cozy Pairings
Voodoo is a rich and inviting fragrance built around the depth of freshly brewed coffee, softened with the natural sweetness of sugar cane. Warm and slightly indulgent, this scent blends bold, roasted notes with a smooth, lingering sweetness that feels both energizing and comforting. Subtle and atmospheric, it carries a hint of something more, adding a layer of intrigue that makes the fragrance feel warm, familiar, and just a little bit magical.
Why we chose this: In a small Tokyo café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years, four customers at a time are given the chance to travel back in time, for as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. These are quiet, aching, deeply human stories about what we would say if we had one more chance, and what we carry when we do not. Voodoo carries the warm, roasted depth of a series where a single cup of coffee holds more meaning than most people will ever find in a lifetime, rich and sweet and alive with something that feels like the particular magic of a place that has been quietly changing people for generations. It is the candle for every book in this series. Light this candle before you sit down with one of these stories, and let the warmth fill the room like a café on a quiet afternoon, where the coffee is always exactly right and the time you have left to drink it is the only thing that matters.