Please join us for the launch of THE SLEEP WATCHER by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan at Burley Fisher. There will be a short reading and refreshments on sale.
When she is sixteen, Kit suffers a summer of peculiar sleeplessness. Her body lies in bed while she wanders through her family home, the streets of her rundown seaside town and into the houses of friends and strangers. Unseen and unheard, she witnesses her parents and their fracturing relationship. Her home thrums with quiet violence that she can no longer ignore. With this secret knowledge it becomes impossible not to react and a single choice soon changes everything.
Intimate, tense and exquisitely observed, The Sleep Watcher is a moving portrait of family, danger and guilt, captured through the strange summer heat of adolescence.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is a Japanese-British-Chinese-American writer. Her debut novel, Harmless Like You, was published in 2016 and won the Author's Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask award. It was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Her writing has appeared in the anthologies East Side Voices, Go Home!, Writing the Uncanny, How Much the Heart Can Hold, Waiting for the Gift, Spiritus Mundi: Writings Borne from the Occult and Who's Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Colour, as well as the Guardian, New York Times, Granta, The Paris Review and The Atlantic. She is based in London and has lived in New York, Tokyo, Madison and Norwich.
When she is sixteen, Kit suffers a summer of peculiar sleeplessness. Her body lies in bed while she wanders through her family home, the streets of her rundown seaside town and into the houses of friends and strangers. Unseen and unheard, she witnesses her parents and their fracturing relationship. Her home thrums with quiet violence that she can no longer ignore. With this secret knowledge it becomes impossible not to react and a single choice soon changes everything.
Intimate, tense and exquisitely observed, The Sleep Watcher is a moving portrait of family, danger and guilt, captured through the strange summer heat of adolescence.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is a Japanese-British-Chinese-American writer. Her debut novel, Harmless Like You, was published in 2016 and won the Author's Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask award. It was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Her writing has appeared in the anthologies East Side Voices, Go Home!, Writing the Uncanny, How Much the Heart Can Hold, Waiting for the Gift, Spiritus Mundi: Writings Borne from the Occult and Who's Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Colour, as well as the Guardian, New York Times, Granta, The Paris Review and The Atlantic. She is based in London and has lived in New York, Tokyo, Madison and Norwich.