![]() In The Sleep Watcher she manages to a tell a story that is ethereal and other-worldly while being heart-breakingly human. Julianne Pachico Buchanan has written a beautiful book. ![]() Beautifully written - Buchanan's prose has a brilliantly sensitive touch. Peter Ho Davies An incredibly moving story about connection, loneliness, and what we do when we think no one else is watching. The Sleep Watcher is a beguiling, atmospheric work, at once wary and tender, of how we haunt our parents and how they in turn possess us. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan cuts close to the bone with her insights on family and secrecy, trust and power, and the dangerous, double-edged keenness of intimacy - C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold In her uncanny central conceit Buchanan has hit on a perfect metaphor for the estrangement of adolescence. Sharlene Teo The Sleep Watcher is a taut and vicious thrum of a novel, deceptively pretty and mesmerising as the calm before a storm. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is one of the most distinctive and luminously original novelists of her generation and I'll read anything she writes. Ruth Gilligan, author of The Butchers Charged with the otherworldliness and shrewd social perception found in the works of Shirley Jackson and Octavia Butler, The Sleep Watcher is a bracing and compelling portrayal of adolescence and feeling uncanny at home. The writing is incredibly beautiful and unbearably tense - I had to hold my breath as I read. Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment With agonising precision, The Sleep Watcher captures that estranging moment of young womanhood when you suddenly realise your body, your parents, your whole world is nothing like you thought. ![]() it is a novel that obsessed me from the moment I opened the cover. A pitch-perfect evocation of coming of age in a seaside town - with all the freedom and risk that comes of growing up among flawed and fractured adults. The Sleep Watcher simmers with tension and a constant threat of violence - and yet it is so delicately and cleanly observed as to make reading a pleasure. ‘An incredibly moving story about connection, loneliness, and what we do when we think no one else is watching’ Julianne Pachico, author of The Anthill It is exquisite’ Ruth Gilligan, author of The Butchers ‘The writing is incredibly beautiful and unbearably tense. Intimate, tense and exquisitely observed, The Sleep Watcher is a moving portrait of family, danger and guilt, captured through the strange summer heat of adolescence. With this secret knowledge it becomes impossible not to react and a single choice soon changes everything. Her home thrums with quiet violence that she can no longer ignore. Unseen and unheard, she witnesses her parents and their fracturing relationship. Her body lies in bed while she wanders through her family home, the streets of her run-down seaside town and into the houses of friends and strangers. When she is sixteen, Kit suffers a summer of peculiar sleeplessness that isn’t quite what it seems. The Sleep Watcher is a novel that obsessed me from the moment I opened the cover’ Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is one of the most distinctive and luminously original novelists of her generation’ Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti ![]() ‘A bracing and compelling portrayal of adolescence and feeling uncanny at home.
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