Four Seasons in Japan is a book-within-a-book, this is done by having our main character Flo find a book in Japanese, a translator by trade, she decides to take it on as a project. Flo is stuck in a rut, her relationship is ending and she's trying to get out of a funk. Ayako, is the main character of the book Flo is translating. Ayako is a "fierce and strict old woman who runs a coffee shop in the small town of Onomichi, where she has just taken guardianship of her grandson, Kyo". Flo spends Four Seasons in Japan trying to translate Ayako' book and searching for the author.

Bradley does a wonderful job of writing about Japanese culture and use of the Japanese language as someone who has never been to Japan this book made me feel apart of the culture and improved my understanding the culture.

Thank you to Random House UK, Transworld Publishers, Doubleday for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.