The Shapeless Unease - A Year of Not Sleeping

**Featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read**<BR><BR> 'A profound meditation on language and loss and time, and on how we construct ourselves through stories. And it's painful. And it's beautiful. And I love it.' NATHAN FLIER<BR><BR> Samantha Harvey's insomnia arrived, seemingly, from nowhere; for a year she has spent her nights chasing sleep that rarely comes. She's tried everything to appease it. Nothing is helping.<BR><BR> What happens when one of the basic human needs goes unmet? For Samantha Harvey, extreme sleep deprivation resulted in a raw clarity about life itself. Original and profound, The Shapeless Unease is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and grief, and the will to survive.<BR><BR> 'A delight to read... ineffably rewarding' OBSERVER<BR><BR> 'Easily one of the truest and best books I've read about what it's like to be alive now, in this country' MAX PORTER<BR><BR><BR> 'How can a book about a sensual deprivation be so sensuous and so full? ... it seemed to give my sleep resonance and poetry. What a beautiful book.' TESSA HADLEY