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The House of Sleep
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  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241967744
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

The House of Sleep

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18 Aug 2008
Audiobook
4 July 2019
Paperback
27 Aug 2014
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'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: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241967744
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.

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Praise for The House of Sleep

Splendidly disturbing

Anita Brookner

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

The Times

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

Guardian

Remarkable ... a wonderful bedtime read

Sunday Times

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

Times Literary Supplement

Remarkable ... a wonderful bedtime read

Sunday Times