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The House of Sleep
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  • Published: 18 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141918341
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

The House of Sleep




'Probably the best English novelist of his generation' Nick Hornby

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 ...

  • Published: 18 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141918341
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

About the author

Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. His novels include Rotters, The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death and What a Carve Up!, which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Itranger.The House of Sleep won the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award for 1997.

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham, UK, in 1961. He began writing at an early age. His first surviving story, a detective thriller called The Castle of Mystery, was written when he was eight. His first published novel was The Accidental Woman in 1987, but it was his fourth, What a Carve Up!, that established his reputation as one of England’s finest comic novelists, winning the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1985 and being translated into many languages. Seven bestselling novels and many other awards have followed, including the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for Like A Fiery Elephant, a biography of the experimental novelist, B. S. Johnson. Jonathan lives in London with his wife and two daughters.

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Praise for The House of Sleep

Moving, clever, pleasurable, smart ... one of the best books of the year

Malcolm Bradbury, The Times

There are bits that make you laugh out loud and others which make your heart ache

Guardian

Fiercely clever, witty, wise, hopeful ... a compellingly beautiful tale of love and loss

Times Literary Supplement

Remarkable ... a wonderful bedtime read

Sunday Times