An audio book
After losing her boyfriend and her job, the 25 y.o. protagonist works and lives in her uncle's secondhand bookshop in a Tokyo street of other bookshops. She becomes a booklover and gets to know the clients. She becomes matchmaker for 2 of them.
When she confides in her uncle, things don't seem so bad. Her ex boyfriend's fiancee dumps him. The protagonist learns that her aunt left years ago.
She moves out. 1.5 years later her aunt returns. The protagonist befriends Wada in a cafe. He's there hoping that his girlfriend returns. He suggests that she reads a novel that has a similar plot.
Her uncle asks her to uncover her aunt's secrets. The aunt suggests an overnight stay with the protagonist in nearby mountains. They stay in a hotel that she ran away to work in after she couldn't cope with a miscarriage. She's in remission, which is why she returned. When they return to Tokyo the aunt soon disappears again. This time the uncle correctly guesses that she'll be in the chapel where she mourned her last child. Wada's girlfriend returns.
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