Informationen zum Autor Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of Harmless Like You , Starling Days and The Sleep Watcher . She has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award and been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Her work has been a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR Great Read. Rowan was the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Gladstone's Library and Kundiman. Her writing has appeared in Granta , The Paris Review and The Atlantic among other places. Klappentext The strange and tender new novel from Costa-shortlisted author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan. Vorwort The strange and tender new novel from Costa-shortlisted author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan. Zusammenfassung The strange and tender new novel from Costa-shortlisted author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.

Vorwort
The strange and tender new novel from Costa-shortlisted author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.

Autorentext
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of Harmless Like You, **Starling Days and The Sleep Watcher. She has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award and been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Her work has been a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR Great Read. Rowan was the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Gladstone's Library and Kundiman. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review and The Atlantic among other places.

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**'Beautifully written and compelling' Daily Mail

'Elegant, atmospheric, sharp-edged . . . The Sleep Watcher is a novel that obsessed me from the moment I opened the cover' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment**

When she is sixteen, Kit suffers a summer of peculiar sleeplessness that isn't quite what it seems. 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. Unseen and unheard, she witnesses her parents and their fracturing relationship. Her home thrums with quiet violence that she can no longer ignore. With this secret knowledge it becomes impossible not to react and a single choice soon changes everything.

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.

'The writing is incredibly beautiful and unbearably tense . . . It is exquisite' Ruth Gilligan, author of The Butchers

'Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is one of the most distinctive and luminously original novelists of her generation' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti

Zusammenfassung

'Affecting . . . both tense and tender'
Sophie Mackintosh, Observer

'Thoughtful . . . nuanced and powerful'
Spectator

One summer, sixteen-year-old Kit's life is upended by a strange sleeplessness. While her body lies in bed, she is able to wander through the night undetected, roaming the streets of her run-down seaside town, entering the houses of friends and strangers.

But the most painful revelations are found closest to home. Unseen and unheard, she witnesses the dark tensions in her parents' marriage and, as her family starts to implode, she is forced into an impossible decision that changes everything.

'Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is one of the most distinctive and luminously original novelists of her generation'
Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti

'Elegant, atmospheric, sharp-edged'
Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment