
The House of Sleep
- Author Jonathan Coe
- Narrator Sophie Ward
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 11 hours
- Format Audio
- Genre Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships.
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What to expect
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe, read by Sophie Ward.
Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated .
A group of students sharing a house. They fall in and out of love, they drift apart. Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep – and each other …
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