The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey review – a good night’s sleep? In her dreams
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/14/the-shapeless-unease-a-year-of-not-sleeping-samantha-harvey-review
The novelist’s examination of her year-long struggle with insomnia is poetic and inventive
Insomnia is the long night’s journey into day, where the repetitive cycles of sleep are reduced to a single, unending interlude that can go on and on – in the case of novelist Samantha Harvey, for 40 or 50 excruciating hours.
In a 2018 online essay, which appears to have served as a taster for her new memoir, The Shapeless Unease, she likens sleeplessness to the kind of reflective postmortem that follows the end of a relationship. “What did I do to make it leave? What can I do to get it back?”
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