Michiko: the Girl from Third Carriage

Thousands of words are never spoken.Michiko boards the same train every day. She has mismatched socks, a cat who rules the house, and Gerald - the alarm clock she has been having one-sided arguments with for years.Haruto always appears in the third carriage, carrying a flat white, a calm smile, and a secret he cannot explain.Their first meeting ends with a dragonfly on her nose and one spectacularly unfortunate word: "dragqueen" - a ridiculous blunder that becomes part of their private language forever. Then come the letters scented with tea, shared coffees, quiet glances, and all the "I love yous" neither of them knows how to say.Except this train is anything but ordinary.He gets off in Tokyo. She gets off in Dublin.As the boundary between realities begins to blur, Michiko and Haruto are forced to make an impossible choice: save their love, or save both worlds.Michiko is a warm, funny, and melancholic story about a love that refuses to fit inside one reality - and a train that appears exactly when it is needed most.

Pagina's: 317, Paperback, Independently published