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For lovers of Moo Deng and Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Discover the enchanting new feelgood novel where five overlapping lives seek 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 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 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;
Three more 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' *****
- ISBN10 1529949769
- ISBN13 9781529949766
- Publish Date 14 August 2025
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Doubleday
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English