{"product_id":"9780008722920","title":"Sleep: The stunning and moving new debut novel of 2025 – 'Beautiful' Ann Patchett","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Beautiful … incredibly moving’\u003c\/strong\u003e ANN PATCHETT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Deeply satisfying … beautifully written’ \u003c\/strong\u003ePOLLY SAMSON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A rich tale you can’t put down' \u003c\/strong\u003eEMMA BARNETT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e'Exceptionally moving'\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'My favourite read of 2025'\u003c\/strong\u003e LAURA JACKSON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Magnetic, breathtaking’ \u003c\/strong\u003eCHERIE JONES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Beautiful … I adored it’\u003c\/strong\u003e CHRIS WHITAKER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eA must-read novel of the summer in \u003cem\u003eSunday Times Style, Elle \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eGood Housekeeping.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eA dazzling debut following a newly divorced young mother reckoning with a long-buried secret as she returns home one summer.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eA family secret. A new love. The chance to start again.\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family’s lush backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes but her family life requires careful prudence. Then one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and the simple pleasures of girlhood slip away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her parents’ bed, waiting for her young daughters to find her. She’s newly divorced and navigating life as a co-parent, while discovering the pleasures of a new boyfriend. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush from all those summers ago, punched out of time. She must now reckon with the echoes between the past and the present, what it means to keep a child truly safe, and the family she carries inside herself as she builds a family of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful, wry, humane and life-affirming, \u003cem\u003eSleep \u003c\/em\u003eis about the burden of love and what lies on the other side of silence: the world, rich in possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eA most anticipated book of 2025 in\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eElle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSheerLuxe.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e'Jones takes her cues from writers like John Cheever, Richard Yates and Virginia Woolf'\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e‘A masterpiece of carefully crafted perspective and tone … heroic, even hopeful' \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e‘A compelling debut about motherhood, buried trauma and how we learn to set ourselves free … Shattering, but also witty, arch, probing and hopeful’\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eSUNDAY TIMES STYLE\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e‘A melancholic, moving read that explores how we carry trauma within us, written in beautiful, sun-saturated prose’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eGOOD HOUSEKEEPING\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e‘Jones’s prose is spare but effervescent'\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eELLE\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e'Profoundly beautiful'\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eNPR\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eSleep \u003c\/em\u003ehas a real heart, beating with courage and rage. 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