Natalie M's Reviews > The Phone Box at the Edge of the World

A stunning read that was incredibly powerful as an audiobook.

Based on a true story the phone box at the edge of the world is in the small town of Otsuchi in northern Japan, an area devasted by the tsunami in 2011.

A resident had the idea of placing an old phone booth at the bottom of his garden with a disconnected rotary phone that he could use to ring his deceased cousin (prior to the March 2011 disaster) and his words would "be carried on the wind" as he spoke to him.

Word travels about the wind phone and others come to call those they have lost. Told mainly through the eyes of Yui and Takeshi the story flows seamlessly and sensitively from then to now. The basis of their meeting at the phone box results in this beautiful story of love and loss, despair and hope, and more importantly allowing yourself to move on while honouring those no longer here.