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Before We Forget Kindness

The most emotional book yet in the sensational Tokyo cafe series

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Before We Forget Kindness

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Narrated by: Kevin Shen
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About this listen

The fifth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.

Curl up with the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the cosy Tokyo café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests:

- The father who could not allow his daughter to get married
- A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one
- A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents
- A wife holding a child with no name . . .

They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold.

Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before We Forget Kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to find closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.

‘I don’t want it to ever end. Emotional, heart-warming, hopeful’
- @samzreadsbooks on Instagram


Catch up on the rest of the series with Before the coffee gets cold, Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades and Before We Say Goodbye.

**Before I knew I loved you, the sixth book in the series, is available to pre-order now!**

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Critic reviews

Heartwarming, whimsical . . . offering comfort at a time when the world seems off-kilter and chaotic
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Every bit as good as the first book and all the others since. A wonderful read.

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