A Japanese contemporary classic for fans of Convenience Store Woman - at once wistful, darkly comic and painfully relatable

A mysterious diary left in a cozy laundromat brings together residents from all walks of life - a heartwarming, K-Healing fiction debut in the vein of Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Book Shop

Is three days with a cat long enough to change your life?

Seven families are about to find out. They all have their problems - and they all want to believe that a temporary feline companion can help them find a solution. Or at least provide a few days' relief and distraction.

But the Blanket Cats are mysterious creatures with their own unknowable agendas, who delight in confounding expectations. And perhaps what their hosts are looking for isn't what they really need. Thre...

Claire Lidman died fourteen years ago.

So why does she appear in the background of a recent holiday snap taken in Venice?

Her husband brings the anomaly to Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas. Initial scepticism gives way to cautious belief, but Rekke is falling apart again and Vargas has her own problems. Her gangster brother is threatening to silence her if she doesn't get off his case.

Meanwhile, Rekke's daughter Julia has a new boyfriend she's determined to keep se...

A mysterious diary left in a cozy laundromat brings together residents from all

walks of life - a heartwarming, K-Healing fiction debut in the vein of Welcome

to the Hyunam-Dong Book Shop

Situated in a rapidly gentrifying district of Seoul, Yeonnam-Dong's Smiley Laundromat is a place where the extraordinary stories of ordinary residents unfold. Furnished with a coffee machine, a full bookshelf, and warm lighting, it is a haven from the world for many locals.

And when a notebook is left behind...