How to Hold Someone in your Heart

From the author of Lonely Castle in the Mirror, the bestselling companion read to Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon, adored by fans, now in English for the first time.

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 ★★★★★

Ayumi is a young man with special powers to bring back the dead to meet the living. A gift passed down in his family, he is able to arrange meetings according to strict rules and always under a full moon. After years in this role, he begins to question its meaning, and how his powers affect his own desires in the real world. Meanwhile, he helps out five characters:

• A young film star finds resolution with the father who abandoned him, but not as he expected.
• An amateur historian is obsessed to meet a minor warlord of the sixteenth century.
• Ayumi anxiously juggles 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.

Find out how Ayumi and his clients learn to lose their regrets, open up to the unexpected, and cherish what they already have in this profound and moving novel by Japan's leading storyteller.

Now read: Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon