Synopsis
'Without ever raising your voice, you have shattered the family silence that scabbed over tragedy and produced a work so powerful, so moving that it lingers long after reading. Magnificent' - Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize winning author of The Years
It is 1981. As a wave of puzzling medical cases sweeps across the US, a Parisian doctor is presented with a...
Details
06 March 2025208 pages
9781035026494Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Without ever raising your voice, you have shattered the family silence that scabbed over tragedy and produced a work so powerful, so moving that it lingers long after reading. Magnificent!Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
An extraordinarily powerful and beautifully written story about class, family secrets and shameProspect Magazine
'Sleeping Children is a supremely skilful account of Aids, drugs and 1980s France . . . as a work of social history covering decades, [it] is illuminating and effective . . . it will be a tough reader who doesn’t choke back a tear'The Telegraph
'A beautiful testament to the power of storytelling'Suzanne Smith, nb.
