On a windy hill in Japan stands a disused phone box. For years, people have travelled to visit the phone box, to pick up the receiver and pass their messages to loved ones no longer with us. When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she is plunged into despair and wonders how she will ever carry on. One day she hears of the phone box, and decides to make her own pilgrimage there. Then she meets Takeshi, a bereaved husband whose own daughter has stopped talking in the wake of their loss ... A moving and uplifting story, based on a true story.

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Laura Imai-Messina (Author)
Laura Imai Messina (Author)
Laura Imai Messina was born in Rome and moved to Tokyo at the age of twenty-three. Her international bestselling novel The Phone Box at the Edge of the World was published in thirty-one countries. Laura teaches at some of the most prestigious Japanese universities, as well as writing for newspapers and working with the Japanese National TV Channel NHK.

Lucy Rand (Translator)
Lucy Rand was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize for The Phone Box at the Edge of the World which she translated while living in Japan. She has also translated novels by Italian authors Paolo Milone and Irene Graziosi, and is the editor of the guided audiobook app, Audrey. She now lives in Norwich.

Lucy Rand (Translator)
Lucy Rand is a teacher, editor and translator from Norfolk, UK. She has been living in the countryside of Oita in south-west Japan for three years.