Dreamers

';Riveting, profoundly moving' Emily St. John Mandel, author ofStation Eleven';Beautiful and devastating' Red';Thought-provoking and profound' CosmopolitanImagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for monthsShe sleeps through sunrise. She sleeps through sunset. And yet, in those first few hours, the doctors can find nothing else wrong. She looks like an ordinary girl sleeping ordinary sleep.Karen Thompson Walkers second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams.One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room andfalls asleep. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital.When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster.Written in luminous prose,The Dreamersis a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life if only we are awakened to them.PraiseforThe Age of Miracles: What a remarkable, beautifully wrought novel Curtis Sittenfeld ';A beautifully observed coming-of-age talenimble, delicate and emotionally sophisticated' Observer ';Hauntingly believableanimpressive and quietly terrifyingbook'Sunday Times Astunner from the first pageI loved this novel and cant wait to see what this remarkable writer will do nextJustin Cronin