Hot Chocolate on Thursday

Without even realising it, we may touch and change someone else's life. This is the debut novel by the multi-million-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is In The Library.

Much-loved modern classic by the bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is In The Library for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

Readers love Hot Chocolate on Thursday:

• 'Slipped into my heart and warmed me, just like a cup of cocoa' ★★★★★
• 'I definitely recommend this book!' ★★★★★
• 'Thursday is the beginning of the second half of the week. I felt restored reading this' ★★★★★
• 'Reminds you that everyone is living their own daily joy and pain. Heartwarming' ★★★★★
• 'This made me realise how we magically influence each other's lives without realising it' ★★★★★

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'I learned first-hand how people, flora, and fauna interact. All that breathes on this Earth is interconnected.'

Across a bridge in a quiet neighbourhood in Tokyo, a seasonal cherry blossom sits on the river. Nearby is the Marble Cafe, where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favourite hot drink. Both wonder about each other and about the other lives of the clientele who frequent this charming little cafe behind the trees...

Taking a walk along the river, cooking the best tamagoyaki, ordering hot chocolate, forgetting to remove our nail polish... The small, everyday acts that we do can lead to unexpected encounters and reverberate far beyond our own lives to make a real difference in the world.

Hot Chocolate on Thursday is a tapestry of slice-of-life moments that open and close with a woman ordering her regular hot chocolate at the mysterious Marble Cafe.

What happens in between will touch and swell your heart, as we connect with a community of untold unfolding lives.