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53/100Scholars
Author:
Samantha Harvey
Publisher:
Jonathan Cape
Date:
May 12, 2020
The Shapeless Unease is a shape-shifting book, moving from quasi-surreal scenes in which Harvey describes the sensation of being awake for nights and days on end, to painful appointments with a GP who is running low on time, resources and sympathy, to enquiries into the roots of her insomnia. It is an unsettling reflection of the things we all lose sleep over.
What The Reviewers Say
Watching Samantha Harvey obliterate the advice that’s so often and so smugly offered to the exhausted...is one of the grim pleasures of The Shapeless Unease.
...novelist Samantha Harvey has produced, in The Shapeless Unease, a slim, intense memoir about her own year-long experience of nocturnal unrest.
Harvey’s memoir of sleeplessness is like a small and well-worn eiderdown quilt: It might not cover everything, but it both cools and warms, lofts and lulls, settling gradually on its inhabitant with an ethereal solidity.
... profound, earthshaking.
