The Premonition

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN'Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding. ' DAILY MAIL'Exquisite. ' MARIE CLAIRE'A timely invitation to explore her unusual, alluring world. ' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Casts a delicate spell. ' SPECTATOR'Yoshimoto bucks beautifully against convention. ' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide . . It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old. Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielberg movie'. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she's forgotten something important about her past.