‘A slow-building, philosophical and unique novel… at once a thought-provoking character study and a subtle science fiction tale’ Culturefly ‘This is a profound novel, and a deeply moving one… she takes a terrifying situation and reveals it as a thing of beauty’ Robin Black, author of Life Drawing ‘Frighteningly powerful, beautiful, and uncanny… a love story and also a horror story’ Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove ‘A modern Midsummer Night’s Dream… Walker paints a haunting canvas exploring time, memory, consciousness, and youth’ Marisha Pessl, author of Night Film ‘Lyrical and beguiling… a deeply immersive novel about a community in peril… and the choices we make when our lives, and those of our loved ones, are in danger’ The Observer ‘A thought-provoking and profound story’ Cosmopolitan ‘Lovely, lyrical and scary… a mesmerising read’ Psychologies ‘This beautiful and devastating novel has a dream-like quality of its own’ Red ‘Harrowing, riveting, profoundly moving, and beautifully written… this book is stunning’ Emily St. '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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