Cherry Blossom Stories
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Haruka and Takashi are devoted to shopping and going out in Tokyo. She loves her Louis Vuitton handbags, Hermès scarves and Louboutin shoes. He enjoys eating out and looking through the department stores in Ginza and Shibuya. Together they make a cute couple but love is never easy.

 

Takashi’s world starts to turn upside down when he realises Haruka has started seeing Jun, her wealthy
ex-boyfriend from Kyoto. When Haruka travels to Kyoto to meet up with Jun and his mother, a series of earthquakes hit Tokyo and Takashi is injured. Haruka is unable to contact him and it looks like she’ll never see Takashi again, the boy who truly loves her.

 

Filled with cultural significance, this story will appeal to readers who have an interest in Japan and the mind-set of the Japanese people.

 

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Will Takashi continue to adore Haruka? Will Kenji find his one true love? Will Yuriko stop dieting frantically? Will Masaya and Momo-chan stay together?

 

Find out in TOKYO DREAMS, the sequel to
TOKYO HEARTS. The release date for
TOKYO DREAMS is 2014.
"For us at TripFiction, this is a fabulous novel that weaves its way into the heart of Tokyo Life and brings the city into sharp focus for the reader. This is a great novel for exploring frenetic Tokyo life, offering up little aspects that make Tokyo, well, Tokyo." (TripFiction.com)
  
   
“You really feel as though you’re on the fashionable streets, in the department stores, on the bullet train – or even in the tiny apartments that pass as home for so many people like Takashi. You’ll sit under the cherry blossom trees in the park or freeze as you wait for a friend in the winter months. It’s the Japan which belongs to the young and in which older people are either rich or struggling to get by.” (Sue Magee, The Bookbag)
  
   
"The sweet and charming love story of 'Tokyo Hearts' would make the perfect holiday read" (Laura, Itsumo Japan)
  
 
 

Chapter 1 from TOKYO HEARTS

    That which comes from the heart will go to the heart

 

On the last tempestuous Thursday in July, Takashi discovered the difference between the type of girl that a boy could like and the type of woman that a man could love.


The whole of Tokyo was heaving from the combination of heavy rain and sweltering humidity. Takashi climbed the slippery stairs to the café where he would soon meet up with Haruka and hoped that the summer rainy season would end this week. His light, waterproof jacket had helped him brave the elements that day, but his jeans were now soaked and clinging uncomfortably to his legs. His wet hair was dripping down the back of his neck.

 

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10% of the author’s profit from the sale of the paperback TOKYO HEARTS in 2012/13 will be donated to the Japan Society Tohoku Earthquake Relief Fund – please see BLOG for details.