Best Wishes from the Full Moon Coffee Shop
THE NEW NOVEL IN THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES
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THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING SERIES
Welcome back to the Full Moon Coffee Shop. What do you really want this Christmas?
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At the Full Moon Coffee Shop, we don't take your order. Instead, we bring you desserts and drinks - selected just for you.
In Japanese legend, cats are symbols of good luck. If you are kind to them, they'll return the favour one day. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might find yourself invited to a celestial café.
The Full Moon Coffee Shop magically materialises with every full moon - plus one festive night a year. This Christmas, the sagacious cats open their doors once more to all lost souls in need of a guiding light.
The season's first customer, Satomi, catches wind of her boyfriend's plan to propose on Christmas Eve, and feels torn between love and success. Her disaffected intern, Koyuki, has her own reasons for dreading the day, while Junko is visiting home for the first time after decades away.
In this festive follow-up to the cosy classic, the customers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop stand at a wintry crossroads in their lives. With the help of some feline divinations, they will find the courage to follow their stars into the new year.
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Three women receive guidance from otherworldy felines in Mochizuki's heartfelt follow-up to The Full Moon Coffee Shop. In December 2020, planetary messengers of the stars transform into cats and open the Full Moon Coffee Shop, a traveling food truck, to help people cope with the destabilizing effects of the age of Aquarius. The troupe's tortoiseshell master cat explains their mission: "The most important thing is for them to know themselves." In Tokyo, workaholic advertising executive Satomi contemplates her boyfriend's impending marriage proposal while babysitting her niece Ayu, who's visiting with her mother, Junko, Satomoi's sister-in-law, from the countryside. The marriage would mean a move to the more sedate city of Tsukuba, and she's not ready to give up her career. At the coffee shop, the master cat serves Satomi and Ayu cheese fondu and explains that Satomi's astrological signs point to both business and family, adding, "I hope this becomes the night you discover your true wishes." Two other story lines feature women finding peace after a family rupture: Junko drinks a sparkling tea at the coffee shop that prompts happy memories of her estranged and ailing father, while Satomi's coworker Koyuki struggles with facing her father's new wife at Christmas. The situations and resolutions are simplistically portrayed, but Mochizuki seamlessly blends a whimsical tone with time-worn wisdom and copious astrological chart readings. This breezy tale has plenty of charm.
