The Lantern of Lost Memories

A cosy, uplifting Japanese novel about rediscovering ourselves through our most cherished memories. For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

If you could relive one day of your life, which would it be?

Imagine waking up in a cosy photo studio in the mountains, between this world and the next. A kind man hands you a hot drink and a stack of photographs, one from every day of your life. They capture your best days and your worst, memories you treasure and those you try to forget.

Then, you are asked to pick one photograph from each year to be placed in a beautiful Japanese lantern, to be set spinning so that your life will flash before your eyes.

Like our most thumbed-over photos, our favourite memories can be tarnished in time too, so Hirasaka guides the guests back in time to relive one special day over again, to take a fresh photo and find peace.

Reader’s love Sanaka Hiiragi’s The Lantern of Lost Memories:

‘If you love the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, you must read this’
‘This book is a real treat for your soul’
‘A comfort read I will turn to again and again’