THE JAPANESE BESTSELLING NOVEL
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD
'I definitely want to visit this library. I feel kinder after this book' 5***** Reader review
'It made me laugh and cry. It made me feel comforted and warm inside' 5***** Reader review
'Wonderful. It made me look for connection in my life' 5***** Reader review
FOR FANS OF THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY AND BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, THIS SOUL-STIRRING JAPANESE NOVEL SHOWS HOW THE PERFECT BOOK RECOMMENDATION CAN SHOW US HOW TO OPEN OUR HEARTS AND FULFIL OUR DREAMS
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What are you looking for?
So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. She is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what readers are looking for in life, she provides just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it.
For every borrower in her library is dreaming of a new future: a restless retail assistant looking for new skills, a stay-at-home mother who longs to be a magazine editor, a conscientious accountant who yearns for his own antique store, and a reluctantly retired salaryman dreaming of newfound purpose.
Each book recommended by Komachi shows us the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognising opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path and above all, to follow our dreams.

Michiko Aoyama (Author)
Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Tokyo to work as a magazine editor. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award, was a Time Book of the Year, a Times bestseller and a New York Times Book of the Month. It has sold two million copies and is being published in over thirty territories. Her new healing fiction title The Recovery Hippo at Hinode Park will be published internationally. Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.