
The Sleep Watcher (Hardback)
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (author)Published: 20/04/2023
When she is sixteen, Kit suffers a summer of peculiar sleeplessness that isn't quite what it seems. Her body lies in bed while she wanders through her family home, the streets of her run-down seaside town and into the houses of friends and strangers.
Unseen and unheard, she witnesses her parents and their fracturing relationship. Her home thrums with quiet violence that she can no longer ignore. With this secret knowledge it becomes impossible not to react and a single choice soon changes everything.
Intimate, tense and exquisitely observed, The Sleep Watcher is a moving portrait of family, danger and guilt, captured through the strange summer heat of adolescence.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781399710626
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 360 g
Dimensions: 220 x 144 x 28 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'A lyrical, bracing read, wearing the influences of Kazuo Ishiguro, Ruth Ozeki and Virginia Woolf light as a perfume.' - Annabel Nugent, The Independent
'Beautifully written and compelling.' - The Daily Mail
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