Dreamers

?',Harrowing, riveting, profoundly moving, and beautifully writtenthis book is stunning'Emily St. John Mandel, author ofStation Eleven -*-The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of The Age of Miracles-*-Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months Karen Thompson Walkers 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.',This beautiful and devastating novel has a dream-like quality of its own'Red ',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 danger'The Observer ',A modernMidsummer Night's DreamWalker paints a haunting canvas exploring time, memory, consciousness, and youth'Marisha Pessl, author ofNight Film ',Frighteningly powerful, beautiful, and uncannya love story and also a horror story'Karen 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 beauty'Robin Black, author ofLife Drawing ',Lovely, lyrical and scarya mesmerising read'Psychologies magazine ',A thought-provoking and profound story'Cosmopolitan ',A slow-building, philosophical and unique novel at once a thought-provoking character study and a subtle science fiction tale'CultureflyPraiseforThe Age of Miracles: ',A beautifully observed coming-of-age talenimble, delicate and emotionally sophisticated' Observer ',Hauntingly believableanimpressive and quietly terrifyingbook'Sunday TimesAstunner from the first pageI loved this novel and cant wait to see what this remarkable writer will do nextJustin Cronin What a remarkable, beautifully wrought novel Curtis Sittenfeld