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.