331 pages
English language
Published Jan. 2, 1999 by Vintage Contemporaries.
The house of sleep (1999, Vintage Contemporaries)
331 pages
English language
Published Jan. 2, 1999 by Vintage Contemporaries.
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...