Book Review - BEFORE THE COFFEE GOES COLD
If you could go back who would you want to meet?
My best friend owns a coffee shop in kings cross London and has stared a journal so I thought I’d share this for all of his customers as it’s a story about a coffee shop in Japan.
The story goes ...
Set in a Tokyo coffee shop - BEFORE THE COFFEE GOES COLD was first a play before being adapted to a novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.
The concept is simple -
A coffee shop that allows a customer the option to take a trip back in time if they follow some simple rules and keep an open mind.
They must sit in ‘the seat’ if it’s not already inhabited by the ghost ( but that’s another tale!). The ritual of time travel can start now with the shop owner Kazu pouring a hot cup of steaming coffee directly from a silver pot into a waiting white cup.
The spell begins and the customer is transported back in time to a moment of choice taken place within the four walls of the coffee shop.
The only rule -
You must return before the coffee goes cold.
Second chances to deliver messages of love, news of the future or simply to see someone one more time - these are the choices on offer. But when all considered through the stories of these hopeful travellers I am reminded to perhaps simply live with the paths fate has chosen for us.
That is how I met Justo anyway on the first day he opened his coffee shop - and that’s our story.
By Helen Cowley