The Dreamers

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Riveting, profoundly moving Emily St. John Mandel, author ofStation Eleven
Beautiful and devastating Red
Thought-provoking and profound Cosmopolitan

Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months

She sleeps through sunrise. She sleeps through sunset.
And yet, in those first few hours, the doctors can find nothing else wrong. She looks like an ordinary girl sleeping ordinary sleep.

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.

One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room andfalls 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.

When 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.

Written in luminous prose,The Dreamersis a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life if only we are awakened to them.

PraiseforThe Age of Miracles:
'What a remarkable, beautifully wrought novel' Curtis Sittenfeld
A beautifully observed coming-of-age talenimble, delicate and emotionally sophisticated Observer
Hauntingly believableanimpressive and quietly terrifyingbookSunday Times
'Astunner from the first pageI loved this novel and can't wait to see what this remarkable writer will do next'Justin Cronin

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Harrowing, riveting, profoundly moving, and beautifully writtenthis book is stunningEmily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven

This beautiful and devastating novel has a dream-like quality of its ownRed

Lovely, lyrical and scarya mesmerising readPsychologies

A thought-provoking and profound storyCosmopolitan

Lyrical and beguilinga deeply immersive novel about a community in peril and the choices we make when our lives, and those of our loved ones, are in dangerThe Observer

A modernMidsummer Nights DreamWalker paints a haunting canvas exploring time, memory, consciousness, and youthMarisha Pessl, author ofNight Film

Frighteningly powerful, beautiful, and uncannya love story and also a horror storyKaren Russell, author ofVampires in the Lemon Grove

This is a profound novel, and a deeply moving oneshe takes a terrifying situation and reveals it as a thing of beautyRobin Black, author ofLife Drawing

A slow-building, philosophical and unique novel at once a thought-provoking character study and a subtle science fiction taleCulturefly

'Powerful and moving... written with symphonic sweep'New York Times Book Review

'[An] imaginative, disturbing and ultimately spellbinding narrative, which asks provokative questions about our concepts of time and connection, and the bounds of possibility for life on earth'Vogue

'Powerful, thoughtful and entirely original'PopSugar

Author Bio

Karen Thompson Walker is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. A former book editor, she wrote The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work. Born and raised in San Diego, California, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband.