The Shapeless Unease
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Publisher Description
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Sleep. Sleep. Like money, you only think about it when you have too little. Then you think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. It becomes the prism through which you see the world and nothing can exist except in relation to it.
Samantha Harvey’s insomnia arrived, seemingly, from nowhere; for a year she has spent her nights chasing sleep that rarely comes. She’s tried everything to appease it. Nothing is helping.
What happens when one of the basic human needs goes unmet? For Samantha Harvey, extreme sleep deprivation resulted in a raw clarity about life itself. Original and profound, The Shapeless Unease is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and grief, and the will to survive.
© Samantha Harvey 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Customer Reviews
Ironically dreamy
Incredible: the rambling descriptions of the thoughts as she tries, doesn’t try, relaxes, doesn’t relax into sleep, or sleeplessness… such connections, and those amazing ideas that randomly pop into her mind as drifting, or not drifting off, but just out of memory’s reach… it’s all so familiar. Or would be if only I was this intelligent! It’s brilliant.