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Hot Chocolate on Thursday

Michiko Aoyama

Across a bridge in a quiet neighbourhood in Tokyo, a seasonal cherry blossom sits on the river. Nearby is the Marble Cafe, where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favourite hot drink. Both wonder about each other and about the other lives of the clientele who frequent this charming little cafe behind the trees. Taking a walk along the river, cooking the best tamagoyaki, ordering hot chocolate, forgetting to remove our nail polish... The small, everyday acts that we do can lead to unexpected encounters and reverberate far beyond our own lives to make a real difference in the world. Hot Chocolate on Thursday is a tapestry of slice-of-life moments that open and close with a woman ordering her regular hot chocolate at the mysterious Marble Cafe.

GenresCoffeehousesJapanTokyoFictionInterpersonal relationsTokyo (Japan)

208 pages, 6 editions

English edition · First published 2026 by Doubleday · ISBN 9781529950120

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Editions

6 editions

English

  • Hot Chocolate on Thursday · Doubleday · 2026 · ISBN 9781529950120 · 1 reader This page
  • Hot Chocolate on Thursday: A Novel · Hanover Square Press · 2027 · ISBN 9781335003843
  • Hot Chocolate on Thursday: A Novel · Hanover Square Press · 2026 · ISBN 9781335002396
  • Hot Chocolate on Thursday · HarperCollins · 2026 · ISBN 9780369775337
  • Hot Chocolate on Thursday: A Novel · Thorndike Press Large Print · 2026 · ISBN 9781420535662
  • Hot Chocolate on Thursday · Hanover Square Press · 2026 · ISBN 9781335001917

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