The Sleep Watcher

The Sleep Watcher

by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 20/04/2023

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'Affecting . . . both tense and tender'

Sophie Mackintosh, Observer


'Thoughtful . . . nuanced and powerful'

Spectator


One summer, sixteen-year-old Kit's life is upended by a strange sleeplessness. While her body lies in bed, she is able to wander through the night undetected, roaming the streets of her run-down seaside town, entering the houses of friends and strangers.


But the most painful revelations are found closest to home. Unseen and unheard, she witnesses the dark tensions in her parents' marriage and, as her family starts to implode, she is forced into an impossible decision that changes everything.


'Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is one of the most distinctive and luminously original novelists of her generation'

Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti


'Elegant, atmospheric, sharp-edged'

Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment

ISBN:
9781399710640
9781399710640
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-04-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is a Japanese-British-Chinese-American writer. Her debut novel, Harmless Like You was published in 2016 and won the Author's Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask award. It was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan was the recipient of a Margins fellowship for the Asian American Writers Workshop, has a BA from Columbia University, an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is currently working on a PhD at the University of East Anglia.

Her writing has appeared in the short story anthology How Much the Heart Can Hold (Sceptre), the Guardian, New York Times, Granta, The Paris Review and The Atlantic among other places. She has lived in London, New York, Tokyo, Madison and Norwich.

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