The prose is economical yet it is also evocative. And as they sleep, they dream.The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker is a beautifully written tale with, at times, an almost dreamlike quality. There is an attempt to contain the disease first to the dormitory, then to the campus through quarantine but soon it spreads to the town as doctors, nurses, even entire families fall asleep. Then another and another and each day it seems, more students are falling asleep. In a small college town in California, a girl falls asleep after a night of drinking and can't be wakened. 'A stunner from the first page… I loved this novel and can't wait to see what this remarkable writer will do next' Justin Cronin ‘Hauntingly believable… an impressive and quietly terrifying book’ Sunday Times ‘A beautifully observed coming-of-age tale… nimble, delicate and emotionally sophisticated’ Observer 'What a remarkable, beautifully wrought novel' Curtis Sittenfeld Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life if only we are awakened to them. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room and falls asleep. Karen 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. She looks like an ordinary girl sleeping ordinary sleep. She sleeps through sunset.Īnd yet, in those first few hours, the doctors can find nothing else wrong. Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months… ‘Thought-provoking and profound’ Cosmopolitan
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