The Healing Hippo Of Hinode Park

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Upmarket new healing fiction from the 2.5-million-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking for is in the Library set in a suburban community block where five characters will touch the part of their body that is ailing to the hippo ride in the local park to help it heal. **PRE-ORDER THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY** For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop Discover the enchanting new feelgood community novel where five overlapping lives find comfort from a magical hippo ride- 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 feel swift signs of recovery. Meet the neighbours who come to the hippo, from a highschool student, to a grown-up son to an eighty-year-old dry-cleaning lady- -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; - a young boy avoids sports day with a fake injury only to find his leg really does hurt. When he places his palm on the hippo's rear leg, his attitude to friendship is opened up when someone he knows passes by. Two more community neighbours will find themselves in the same playground, as they discover how to reach out, in this uniquely authentic 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' *****

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Michiko Aoyama (Author) Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. . What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award, was a Time Book of the Year, a Times bestseller and a New York Times Book of the Month. It has sold over two and a half million copies and is being published in over thirty territories. Her latest novel to be translated into English is The Healing Hippo at Hinode Park and is also due to be published internationally. Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.