# The House of Sleep

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- Book: [The House of Sleep](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe/the-house-of-sleep) ([The House of Sleep.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe/the-house-of-sleep.md))
- Authors: [Jonathan Coe](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-774-4
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2014-06-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated . A group of students sharing a house. They fall in and out of love, they drift apart. Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep - and each other ...