Before I Knew I Loved You

THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY AND WILL BE RELEASED ON 26 MAY 2026.

The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cozy Japanese café that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.

In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo café, you're offered something irresistible - not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to go back in time to revisit the ones you love...

In Before I Knew I Loved You, Toshikazu Kawaguchi takes us back to the warm heart of the mysterious Funiculi Funicula Café, with another four guests whose luminous stories of love, lost and won again, will reaffirm your belief in its eternal potential. In this book, we meet:

• The girl who couldn't call her mother, and yearns to reconnect with her
• The man who waited for a reply from his girlfriend, and never heard from her
• The woman anxious to travel ahead to know what her future holds
• The student who travels back to meet his father again, who passed away many years before.

Yet the same rules always apply - you must return before the coffee gets cold. And while it does, memories are revisited, people are changed for ever, and the enduring power of love transcends the boundaries of time.

Translated from the original Japanese.

Read the full series! Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Tales from the Café, Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye, Before We Forget Kindness, & Before I Knew I Loved You