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  • Published: 1 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780857529664
  • Imprint: Doubleday
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $34.99

How to Hold Someone in your Heart

From the Japanese bestselling author of Lonely Castle in the Mirror





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'*****
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Ayumi is searching for the best way to balance the responsibility of his special powers 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 is obsessed to meet a minor warlord of the sixteenth century;
-Ayumi anxiously 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.

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 beloved novel by Japan's leading storyteller.

  • Published: 1 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780857529664
  • Imprint: Doubleday
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

Mizuki Tsujimura

MIZUKI TSUJIMURA is the winner of the Japan Booksellers' Award and the Naoki prize, two highly influential awards in Japan. Her novel LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR sold one million copies in Japan. She has writtten several mystery novels and is at work on a new novel. She lives in Japan.

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