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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN

‘Enchanting.’ TIME OUT
‘The literary equivalent of a lo-fi playlist.’ JAPAN TIMES
‘Sensitive, refined and graceful.’ i-D
[Yoshimoto] is the supreme poet of solitude.’ SPECTATOR

Mourning her lost lover, a woman finds herself sleepwalking at night.

Another woman, in the midst of an affair with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake.

And a third woman finds her dreams haunted by an old rival in love.

Across the nocturnal lives of these three women, Banana Yoshimoto weaves an enchanting ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism.

Readers love Banana Yoshimoto:
????? ‘I love her ability to make the mundane glorious and the supernatural and unbelievably unlikely commonplace’
????? ‘Yoshimoto is there to show us that there is beauty in the simplest things and truth in life’s most brutal moments’
????? ‘She paints a picture with her words unlike anyone else I’ve ever read’