The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: The most moving, unforgettable book you will read, inspired by true events

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Yui is intrigued and makes the drive from Tokyo. Along the way, she meets Takeshi, who lost his wife, and whose young daughter, Hana, is mute following her mother’s death, and together they find Bell Gardia, the garden “on a hill in the middle of nowhere” with the wind phone.

The central character of The Phone Box At The Edge Of The World was Yui. Yui was a woman that had everything, including a mother and daughter that she loved dearly. Their death in the 2011 tsunami changed her life irrevocably. Yui decides to join the many who make the long trek to Belle Gardia to speak to her beloved family members. Instead, Yui finds an unexpected friend in Takeshi. Takeshi was a doctor and a widow. His beloved wife, Akiko perished in the disaster. Hanna, Takeshi’s daughter, was deeply affected by the loss of her mother as she has not spoken since that day. When Yui meets the father and daughter, all their lives will be changed forever. Unless otherwise stated, this discussion guide is reprinted with the permission of The Overlook Press. Comparing her work to Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Natsuo Kirino or Kenzaburo Oe, is tonally inappropriate and woefully reductive, yet Messina does echo their prowess at moments, thereby perhaps inviting tempered comparison. I’m paying her a compliment, not disparaging her by faint association. Messina has not, to my mind, joined their ranks, however aspects of her writing are engagingly impressive. Her future novels may well evince the true measure of her talent. The Phone Box at the Edge of the World is powerful and moving, thoughtful and evocative. Messina writes with both clarity and restraint, with the ability to reveal much in a single, compressed paragraph. In an early description of Yui, Messina writes: As the daughter of a librarian Jen's love of books started from a very early age. Her reading obsession continued throughout her teenage years when she studied both English Language and English Literature at college.E i due si innamorano. E Taseki glielo avrebbe spiegato a Yui “Che è un vero miracolo l’amore. Anche il secondo, anche quello che arriva per sbaglio.” The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is a poetic novel about a real telephone booth in Otsuchi, Japan, a rural town decimated by the 2011 tsunami. Known as the “Wind Phone,” the disconnected rotary telephone allows grieving family members to speak, in a way, to loved ones who have passed on. Soon Yui will make her own pilgrimage to the phone box, too. But once there she cannot bring herself to speak into the receiver. Then she finds Takeshi, a bereaved husband whose own daughter has stopped talking in the wake of their loss.

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So, a novel of delicate charm and definitely a book likely to warm the hearts of many readers. True, that whilst this pedantic reader did not feel the metaphorical warmth of its sun, he did see enough of that sun to want to read Messina’s next novel. Her pétillant talent did permeate most of the novel and that’s not a bad reason to read this book and eagerly anticipate her next! I watch mothers in the street, in parks, at the supermarket, and I try to steal their secrets. I want to know how you make a child talk, how you make them feel happy to be alive.” “Oh, but nobody knows that!” Yui would reply instinctively later that evening, turning to look at him. Absolutely breathtaking' Christy Lefteri, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo. Die Radio Redakteurin erfährt nach einiger Zeit von einer Telefonzelle......mit deren Hilfe man Kontakt mit verlorenen Seelen herstellen könnte.....