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The House of Sleep
- Author
- Jonathan Coe
- Narrator
- Sophie Ward
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 4 July 2019
- Run Time
- 11 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
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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 ...
© Jonathan Coe 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2019
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Splendidly disturbing
Anita Brookner
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Details
- Author
- Jonathan Coe
- Narrator
- Sophie Ward
- Duration
- 11 hours
- Release Date
- 4 July 2019
- ISBN
- 9780241987131
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Humorous fiction, Fiction: dual or multiple timelines, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: love / relationships
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. 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 ...© Jonathan Coe 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2019
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