A beautiful read: 'The Phone Box at the Edge of the World' By Laura Imai Messina book review – When Life Met T

Disclaimer: I received this book from the publishers through Netgalley. However, all opinions expressed in this review are my own.I was really drawn to the synopsis of the book when I first read about it. Just the thought of a telephone box close to the sea that carries messages from the living to the dead…

The Phone Box At The Edge Of The World Book Review

The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: A moving story of grief, love and hope for fans of The Beekeeper of Aleppo: Messina, Laura Imai: 9781786580405: : Books

We all have something to tell those we have lost. On a windy hill in Japan, in a garden overlooking the sea stands a disused phone box. For years,

The Phone Box at the Edge of the World

Laura Imai Messina's international bestselling novel is a story about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected wind phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami. When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart and when grief took hold of her life.