{"product_id":"the-sleep-watcher-9781399710633","title":"The Sleep Watcher","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Beautifully written and compelling'' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is one of the most distinctive and luminously original novelists of her generation'' Sharlene Teo, author of \u003ci\u003ePonti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Elegant, atmospheric, sharp-edged . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Sleep Watcher\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that obsessed me from the moment I opened the cover'' Cal Flyn, author of \u003ci\u003eIslands of Abandonment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntimate, tense and exquisitely observed, \u003ci\u003eThe Sleep W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lyrical, bracing read\u003c\/b\u003e, wearing the influences of Kazuo Ishiguro, Ruth Ozeki and Virginia Woolf light as a perfume -- Annabel Nugent * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautifully written and compelling\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eThe pleasure in Buchanan's writing lies in her insightful phrases and shrewd observations -- Suzi Feay * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThoughtful . . . nuanced and \u003cb\u003epowerful\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alex Peake-Tomkinson * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eAffecting . . . both tense and tender -- Sophie Mackintosh * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sleep Watcher\u003c\/i\u003e simmers with tension and a constant threat of violence - and yet it is so delicately and cleanly observed as to make reading a pleasure. A pitch-perfect evocation of coming of age in a seaside town - with all the freedom and risk that comes of growing up among flawed and fractured adults.\u003cb\u003e Elegant, atmospheric, sharp-edged . . . it is a novel that obsessed me from the moment I opened the cover.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Cal Flyn, author of \u003ci\u003eIslands of Abandonment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith agonising precision, \u003ci\u003eThe Sleep Watcher\u003c\/i\u003e captures that estranging moment of young womanhood when you suddenly realise your body, your parents, your whole world is nothing like you thought. The writing is incredibly beautiful and unbearably tense - I had to hold my breath as I read. It is exquisite. -- Ruth Gilligan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Butchers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharged with the otherworldliness and shrewd social perception found in the works of Shirley Jackson and Octavia Butler, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sleep Watcher\u003c\/i\u003e is a bracing and compelling portrayal of adolescence and feeling uncanny at home. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is one of the most distinctive and luminously original novelists of her generation\u003c\/b\u003e and I'll read anything she writes. -- Sharlene Teo, author of PONTI\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sleep Watcher \u003c\/i\u003eis \u003cb\u003ea taut and vicious thrum of a novel\u003c\/b\u003e, deceptively pretty and mesmerising as the calm before a storm. \u003cb\u003eRowan Hisayo Buchanan cuts close to the bone\u003c\/b\u003e with her insights on family and secrecy, trust and power, and the dangerous, double-edged keenness of intimacy -- C Pam Zhang, author of \u003ci\u003eHow Much of These Hills Is Gold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her uncanny central conceit Buchanan has hit on a perfect metaphor for the estrangement of adolescence. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sleep Watcher\u003c\/i\u003e is a beguiling, atmospheric work, at once wary and tender\u003c\/b\u003e, of how we haunt our parents and how they in turn possess us. -- Peter Ho Davies, author of THE FORTUNES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn incredibly moving story about connection, loneliness, and what we do when we think no one else is watching. Beautifully written - Buchanan's prose has a brilliantly sensitive touch.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Julianne Pachico, author of THE LUCKY ONES\u003cbr\u003eBuchanan has written a beautiful book.\u003cb\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Sleep Watcher\u003c\/i\u003e she manages to a tell a story that is ethereal and other-worldly while being heart-breakingly human.\u003c\/b\u003e We are lucky to have her unique voice. -- Paul McVeigh\u003cbr\u003eIn elegant and restrained prose, the novel charts one young woman's summer of heat and dreams, of longing and rebellion, of relationships deteriorating and new experiences rising. No one is writing about the interior worlds of women like Rowan Hisayo Buchanan. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sleep Watcher\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing achievement, in which ordinary life and a magnificent unreality collide. I loved it.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Gemma Seltzer, author of \u003ci\u003eWays of Living\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI absolutely adored \u003ci\u003eThe Sleep Watcher\u003c\/i\u003e. It is so finely wrought - with an aching, delicate beauty and suspense\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jessica J. Lee\u003cbr\u003eSlippery, luminous, ethereal . . . like finding sea glass at the beach. Hisayo Buchanan writes like a dream, only this time her subject is also dreams, liminal spaces, adolescence on the brink of adulthood, sleep that skirts the rim of waking, what is real about her father at the creeping dawn of a young woman's realisation. She is my favourite contemporary writer -- Abigail Tarttelin\u003cbr\u003eA powerful meditation on the realisations that come with adolescence -- Pat Carty * Irish Times *\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090863255895,"sku":"9781399710633","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399710633.jpg?v=1762273650","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sleep-watcher-9781399710633","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}