{"product_id":"9781471173592-the-dreamers","title":"The Dreamers","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e comes an ambitious novel of family, secrets and sleep\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Riveting, profoundly moving’\u003c\/b\u003e Emily St. John Mandel, author of \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Beautiful and devastating’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Thought-provoking and profound’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eImagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe sleeps through sunrise. She sleeps through sunset.\u003cbr\u003e And yet, in those first few hours, the doctors can find nothing else wrong. She looks like an ordinary girl sleeping ordinary sleep.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKaren Thompson Walker's second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room and falls asleep. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in luminous prose, \u003ci\u003eThe Dreamers \u003c\/i\u003eis a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life if only we are awakened to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Miracles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'What a remarkable, beautifully wrought novel' \u003cb\u003eCurtis Sittenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘A beautifully observed coming-of-age tale… nimble, delicate and emotionally sophisticated’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Hauntingly believable… an impressive and quietly terrifying book’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A stunner from the first page… I loved this novel and can't wait to see what this remarkable writer will do next' \u003cb\u003eJustin Cronin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943927918689,"sku":"9781471173592","price":6.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31829039.jpg?v=1734624032","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781471173592-the-dreamers","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}