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‘Beautiful … Incredibly moving’ ANN PATCHETT ‘Sun-saturated prose’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘A rich tale you can’t put down’ iNEWS ‘Deeply satisfying … beautifully written’ POLLY SAMSON A family secret. A new love. The chance to start again. Margaret's childhood is one of Saturday morning pancakes and sunlit swimming pools behind white picket fences. Then, one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and the simple pleasures of girlhood slip away. Twenty-five years later, Margaret is newly divorced with two young daughters of her own. She's starting over while discovering the pleasures of a new boyfriend. But, returning to the family home at her mother's beckoning, she finds herself swept up in the unspoken truth of that long ago summer. She must now reckon with what binds the past to the present, one generation to the next, and safety to the freedom we most desire. A must-read novel of the summer in Sunday Times Style, Elle and Good Housekeeping. ‘Jones takes her cues from writers like John Cheever, Richard Yates and Virginia Woolf’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘A moving, funny and searing look at childhood, family and marriage. I adored it’ CHRIS WHITAKER, author of All the Colours of the Dark ‘Shattering, but also witty, arch, probing and hopeful’ PANDORA SYKES, in Sunday Times Style ‘An unsettling narrative of family secrets and buried wounds’ ELLE 'Thrillingly virtuosic – beguiling, unsettling and stylish’ JESSICA STANLEY, author of Consider Yourself Kissed

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Praise for Sleep: 'A rich tale you can’t put down about motherhood, anxiety and how to escape memories of childhood taking over; especially once you become a parent yourself’ Emma Barnett, in iNews 'An exceptionally moving novel' New York Times Book Review ‘Profoundly beautiful’ NPR ‘A compelling debut about motherhood, buried trauma and how we learn to set ourselves free … Shattering, but also witty, arch, probing and hopeful’ Pandora Sykes in Sunday Times Style ‘A melancholic, moving read that explores how we carry trauma within us, written in beautiful, sun-saturated prose’ Good Housekeeping ‘50 Best Ever Beach Reads’ ‘An unsettling narrative of family secrets and buried wounds … Jones’s prose is spare but effervescent, her evocation of childhood is pitch-perfect’ Elle, ‘The Best Books of Spring 2025’ 'A masterpiece of carefully crafted perspective and tone … hypnotic' Washington Post ‘A haunting and beautiful novel about a desperate attempt to live in the present despite the tidal pull of the past … incredibly moving’ Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake 'Beautiful, bruising, incisive and heartfelt. Sleep takes a moving, maddening, funny and searing look at childhood, family and marriage. I adored it’ Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colours of the Dark ‘Beautifully written and atmospheric, with both wit and piercing observations … I will recommend Sleep far and wide’ Polly Samson, author of A Theatre for Dreamers ‘Sleep marks the arrival of an astonishing new voice in the world of literary fiction … propulsive and funny and heartbreaking’ J. Courtney Sullivan, author of The Cliffs 'A novel of quiet, devastating beauty … I loved it' Abigail Dean, author of Girl A 'Sleep is thrillingly virtuosic – beguiling, unsettling and stylish’ Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself Kissed 'A magnetic, breathtaking novel. I could not put it down and will be recommending it to everyone I know' Cherie Jones, author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

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Honor Jones is a senior editor at The Atlantic and formerly worked as a senior staff editor at The New York Times' Opinion desk; her writing has appeared in The Atlantic and The New York Times.

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