Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture Honshu Japan After university she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine editor in Tokyo What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers Award and became a Japanese bestseller It is being translated into than fifteen languages She lives in Yokohama Japan site_link Japanese name site_link Chinese name Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture Honshu Japan After university she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine editor in Tokyo What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers Award and became a Japanese bestseller It is being translated into than fifteen languages She lives in Yokohama Japan site_link Japanese name site_link Chinese name site_link 
PRE ORDER MICHIKO AOYAMA S LATEST NOVEL The enchanting new feelgood novel by the two million copy bestselling author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY where five overlapping lives seek comfort from a magical hippo Nestling at the bottom of a five storey apartment block in the community of Advance Hill is the children s playground Hinode Park where you will find a very special hippo ride According to urban legend if you touch it with the area of your body that needs comfort you will see swift signs of recovery Meet a couple of the neighbours who use the hippo ride from a highschool student to an eighty year old cleaning Kanato lays his head on the hippo s back hoping to recover the confidence he lost when he started at his scary new school Saha a new mother with no friends strokes its mouth in case she can bring back the words she spoke when she was an award winning retail assistant Three neighbours will come to the magical hippo for help as they discover how to resolve emotional pain for themselves if their heart is open and their minds are at peace in this deeply moving celebration of kindness community and understanding Readers adore Recovery Hippo I wanted to find the magical hippo in myself as I read this book How does Aoyama depict human emotion so vividly I imagined myself in this book I almost wept on my train home from work It gripped my heart I wish there was a magical hippo near my home Whenever I feel hurt I want to re read this wonderful book Recovery Hippo Japanese Edition.