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On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones - those who are lost - will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets. Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop''s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop''s most precious acquisition stolen and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike other customers. For he offers help, instead of seeking it. Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana''s father and the stolen choice - through rain puddles, hitching rides on paper cranes, across the bridge between midnight and morning and through a night market in the clouds. But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own - and risk making a choice she will never be able to take back. Erin Morgenstern meets Studio Ghibli in this dreamlike and enchanting fantasy novel from an exciting new voice. Coming soon and available to pre-order now!
About the author
Samantha Sotto Yambao is a professional daydreamer, aspiring time traveller, and speculative fiction writer based in Manila. She is the author of
Before Ever After,
Love and Gravity,
A Dream of Trees, and
The Beginning of Always.
Water Moon is her latest novel and UK debut.
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Full of adventure and marvellous creativity, Water Moon surprises and delights with every turn of the page. I didn't want to leave this fascinating world. Sam Sotto Yambao has written an inventive, refreshing fantasy here Megan Bannen, bestselling author of THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY
