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"Stitches of Time" is a very healing prose work. The author Ogawa Ito, who lives in Germany, uses fresh and meaningful writing to describe the daily life in Berlin and the infinite recollection of the past. When you reach middle age, you have to learn tedious German again; in a foreign country, you can learn natto and Japan's unique ingredients; integrate into the local life in Berlin, reduce material desires, get close to nature wholeheartedly, and enjoy the clean and beautiful leisure time in Germany on weekends... In these warm prose, there are also the author's insights on life and family affection, the helplessness of a son who wants to be filial but cannot wait for him, the doomed separation of life and death, how to regain the hope of life in a desperate situation, and other healing insights. Every bit of life is integrated with Ogawaito's infinite love for the world. Ogawa Ito's words allow people to shake hands and make peace with the world, gain love, gain growth, and gain the joy of being a human being through reading.

As the 11th generation descendant, Hatoko Amamiya inherited the Shancha Stationery Store and conveyed the unspeakable words hidden in the heart to customers. Letters written by an invisible boy to his mother, letters written by a deceased husband to his wife, letters written by parents who lost their young son to relatives and friends... Hatoko always uses the most complicated but also most sincere way to help guests solve their doubts. Everyone has a different story in their life, and everyone is trying to make the story complete.

The representative Japanese healing writer Ogawa Ito wrote the sequel to "Camellia Stationery Shop"! Don't wait for "someday," convey your feelings to the people who matter most now. For those unspeakable feelings, Kamakura's Shancha Stationery Store is still here to express them for you. What can be preserved for a long time is, after all, paper letters. All emotions are bonds. Each ghostwritten letter gently soothes the lonely, angry, and helpless moments in life. At the foot of a hill in Kamakura, Hatoko runs a ghostwriting house. Recently, she was busy with housework and childcare, and finally reopened the store. Unexpected ghostwriting commissions appeared in front of her one after another. Among them, there were resignation applications from employees who had been unfairly treated and were forced to resign, letters from a mother who had just died to her daughter who was about to get married, and letters to an elderly father who refused to return his driver's license... These were all things that could not be said directly in person and would become boring in emails, so they could only be conveyed through letters. At this time, she accidentally discovered the secret love letter hidden by her former ghostwriter..."