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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Ikigai by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, read by Noako Mori. Bring meaning and joy to your every day with the internationally best-selling guide to ikigai. The people of Japan believe that everyone has an ikigai - a reason for being; the thing that gets you out of bed each morning. And according to the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa - the world's longest-living people - finding it is the key to a longer and more fulfilled life.

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances. Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. But she should have known that the simplest cases are never really simple at all. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy.

Umiko Wada has had enough excitement in life. With an overbearing mother and her husband recently murdered, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasantly filled with coffee runs and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case that is surrounded by shadows. A case that means Wada will have to leave Tokyo and travel to London.

「他人の暮らしに入り込む仕事」訪問介護員が寄り添う、家庭の事情、命の期限――あなたも女優になれますか？「誰かのケアをする」というキャパは重い障害のある息子たちを育てるとき、いっぱいになった。かわいいからこそ苦しかった。だから、たくさんの人に助けてもらった。介護職に就いて10年がすぎ、今度は親が認知症になり、その介護が必要になった。

The poems included in "Audio Book Edition, Slightly Blue Sky" are a collection of poems by Naoko Kudo that appeared in a number of editions over a two year period in the fashion magazine "MRS". The author of the poems is speaking as if to engage with their immediate surroundings. The poems will inspire the reader as they are being read with laughter and a sense of wonder. Naoko Kudo, the author of "Audio Book Edition, Slightly Blue Sky" recorded the poems herself. Please enjoy the author's superb combination of words and voice. Also included in this audio book (which can only be heard here)...