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    The Sleepwalkers: A Novel
    The Sleepwalkers: A Novel
    The Sleepwalkers: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Sleepwalkers: A Novel

    Written by Scarlett Thomas

    Narrated by Raphael Corkhill and Kit Griffiths

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    Patricia Highsmith meets White Lotus in this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic story following a couple running from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.

    “Fantastically gripping…this is fiction roaring on all cylinders.” —The Guardian
    “A work of peculiar gonzo genius…Thomas takes a glamorous late-capitalist setting, with rosé and catamarans…and warps it into a story that is surprising, humane and political to its bones.” —The New York Times

    Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and a storm is imminent. Determined to make the best of it, they check into the sun-soaked rooms of Villa Rosa. Already feeling insecure after seeing the “beautiful people,” the seemingly endless number of young models and musicians lounging along the Mediterranean, Evelyn is wary of the hotel’s owner, Isabella, who seems to only have eyes for Richard.

    Isabella ostensibly disapproves of every request Evelyn makes, seemingly annoyed at the fact that they are there at all. Isabella is also preoccupied with her chance to enthrall the only other guests—an American producer named Marcus and his partner Debbie—with the story of “the sleepwalkers,” a couple who had stayed at the hotel recently and drowned.

    Everyone seems to want to talk about the sleepwalkers, save for Hamza, a young Turkish man Evelyn had seen with some of the “beautiful people,” as well as the “dapper little man”—the strange yet fashionable owner of the island’s lone antiques and gift shop she sees everywhere.

    But what at first seemed eccentric, decorative, or simply ridiculous, becomes a living nightmare. Evelyn and Richard are separated the night of the storm and forced to face dark truths, but it’s their confessions around the origins of their relationship and the years leading up to their marriage that might save them.

    “Vibey, dark, and weird” (Allie Rowbottom, author of Aesthetica), and also very funny, The Sleepwalkers asks urgent questions about relationships, sexuality, and the darkest elements of contemporary society—where our most terrible secrets are hidden in plain sight.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 9, 2024
    ISBN9781797177007
    Author

    Scarlett Thomas

    Scarlett Thomas was born in London. She is the author of highly acclaimed contemporary cult novels including The End of Mr. Y, which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction; Oligarchy; The Seed Collectors; PopCo; The Sleepwalkers; and the Worldquake series of middle grade books. Her novels have sold over half a million copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-six languages. Scarlett is professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Kent. Find out more at ScarThomas.com.

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    • 3/5
      This was mostly a good read, but was perhaps trying to do a little too much (as was admitted by the fictional writer in the novel itself). I'm also not sure that using Chekhov's advice for writing short stories is an excuse for how the novel ended. Nevertheless, it kept my attention and I liked the multiple narrators and fragmented story telling. The prose style was also very good and the readers of the audio book had rich, convincing voices.
    • 3/5
      What an interesting book - experimental and like nothing I’ve read before. Do not go into this thinking it’s an light beach read. This book tackles many heavy topics and has a strong feeling of melancholy throughout.

      Trigger warnings: violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, rape, grooming, emotional abuse, human trafficking