Sleep - Honor Jones

‘Beautiful … incredibly moving’ ANN PATCHETT 'Deeply satisfying … beautifully written’ POLLY SAMSON 'A rich tale you can’t put down' EMMA BARNETT 'Exceptionally moving' NEW YORK TIMES 'Magnetic, breathtaking’ CHERIE JONES ‘Beautiful … I adored it’ CHRIS WHITAKER A must-read novel of the summer in Sunday Times Style, Elle and Good Housekeeping. A dazzling debut following a newly divorced young mother reckoning with a long-buried secret as she returns home one summer. A family secret. A new love. The chance to start again. Ten-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. Twenty-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 ti
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