Mizuki Tsujimura, Yuki Tejima (Translator)

How to Hold Someone in your Heart

From the Japanese bestselling author of Lonely Castle in the Mirror

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Summary

PICK UP YOUR NEXT READ FOR FANS OF LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR and BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD - the story of a young man with special powers to connect the living with the afterlife.

The bestselling companion read to LOST SOULS MEET UNDER A FULL MOON
Over 1.2 million copies sold in the series

Readers adore it:
‘Warms your heart’ *****
‘I can’t express how good this is. Made me feel the weight of human life’ *****
‘The relationship with the dead, the messengers, the clients, and the existence of fate – it all felt so intimate to me’ *****
'As good as the first book'*****
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Ayumi is searching for the best way to balance the responsibility of his special powers for connecting the living and the afterlife with his own desires as a young man in the real world. According to strict rules, meetings must take place under a full moon:

-A young film star finds resolution with the father who abandoned him, but not as he expected;
- An amateur historian fan is obsessed to meet a minor warlord of the sixteenth century;
-Ayumi manages two meetings on the same evening, both have lost their daughters;
-A former cook, whose request to visit an upper-class young woman in the afterlife has been repeatedly rejected, is finally granted his wish, and to share a life-changing view of cherry blossom.

Find out how Ayumi and his clients learn to lose their regrets, open up to the unexpected, and cherish what they already have.

About the author

Mizuki Tsujimura

MIZUKI TSUJIMURA is the much-loved author of million-copy-bestselling mystery and puzzlebox novels. Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon explores our relationship with the memories of deceased loved ones and what gives our lives meaning. It was made into a high-budget Japanese-language film and won a newcomer award. Its sequel, How to Hold Someone in Your Heart, was also a huge bestseller, cementing the appeal of Tsujimura’s unique combination of emotion, mystery and magic. She is the author of the groundbreaking novel Lonely Castle in the Mirror, which was also adapted for anime and manga and which combines real-world fantasy with important themes of mental health and friendship. Tsujimura has won many awards, including the Japan Booksellers' Award and the Naoki Prize, and is published worldwide. English-language editions of many of her works, including True Mothers, Arrogance and Virtue (now a major Japanese-language), The Made-to-Order Club and Summer of Amber, are due to be published soon.

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