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The Amberglow Candy Store

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A charming book of linked stories with a sprinkling of cosy fantasy and a fable-like touch . . . 
 
The Amberglow Candy Store in the Night Alley introduces the reader to half-fox shopkeeper Kogetsu, whose magical wagashi sweets from his shop on Gloaming Lane promise to change his customers' lives for the better. 
 
We follow an array of characters from various walks of life through their encounters with Kogetsu, who himself learns some major life lessons along the way, and reveals his own backstory in the process.

Welcome. We don’t get many humans here. 
 
At the end of Gloaming Lane, at the very edge of the otherworld, is the Amberglow Candy Store, open only between the full moon and the new moon. 
 
Behind the cosy caramel-timber facade is Kogetsu, the store’s half-fox proprietor, whose wagashi confections promise to change the lives of his customers for the better. 
 
Kogetsu’s door is always open to anyone in need of solace - a lovesick teenage girl, a cripplingly shy estate agent, a struggling first time mother. 
 
But who is this mysterious proprietor? A half-fox spirit he may be. But why is he so interested in his customers and their emotions? And why does each sweet have a ‘dosage’? 
 
Like the centre of the chewiest caramel, life’s most valuable teachings always take time to reveal themselves, and Kogetsu’s customers are about to get a lot more than they bargained for . . . 
 
The Amberglow Candy Store is a charming and cosy fable-like novel from Japan, that shows that help is always out there for those who seek it.

Hiyoko Kurisu was born in Ibaraki Prefecture. She is the author of several novels and light novels, and her debut Confectionary Senpai’s Delicious Recipes won the Special Award of Starts Publishing’s ‘Become a Novelist’ Prize. Her most recent book was The Twilight Post Office in the Night Alley, which is the sequel to The Amberglow Candy Store in the Night Alley.

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