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Fourth Estate
01 June 2025
‘A haunting and beautiful novel’ ANN PATCHETT

'Deeply satisfying … beautifully written’ POLLY SAMSON

'Exceptionally moving' NEW YORK TIMES

'Magnetic, breathtaking’ CHERIE JONES

‘Beautiful … I adored it’ CHRIS WHITAKER

'Profoundly beautiful' NPR

A most anticipated book of 2025 in The New York Times, Elle, People, Oprah Daily and SheerLuxe.

A dazzling debut novel following a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood as she returns to the family home one summer.

How much of our lives are ours alone?

Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family’s lush backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes but her family life requires careful prudence. Then one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and the simple pleasures of girlhood slip away.

Twenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her parents’ bed, waiting for her young daughters to find her. She’s newly divorced and navigating life as a co-parent, while discovering the pleasures of a new boyfriend. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush from all those summers ago, punched out of time. She must now reckon with the echoes between the past and the present, what it means to keep a child truly safe, and the family she carries inside herself as she builds a family of her own.

Beautiful, unflinchingly human and life-affirming, Sleep is about the burden of love and what lies on the other side of silence: the world, rich in possibility.

'Jones takes her cues from writers like John Cheever, Richard Yates and Virginia Woolf' NEW YORK TIMES

‘A masterpiece of carefully crafted perspective and tone … heroic, even hopeful' WASHINGTON POST

‘Jones’s prose is spare but effervescent' ELLE

‘Sleep has a real heart, beating with courage and rage. I loved it’ ABIGAIL DEAN, author of The Death of Us

'Thrillingly virtuosic – beguiling, unsettling and stylish’ JESSICA STANLEY, author of Consider Yourself Kissed
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Imprint:   Fourth Estate
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   270g
ISBN:   9780008722906
ISBN 10:   0008722900
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Sleep

'An exceptionally moving novel' New York Times Book Review 'A masterpiece of carefully crafted perspective and tone … hypnotic' Washington Post '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 ‘Sleep marks the arrival of an astonishing new voice in the world of literary fiction … This novel is propulsive and funny and heartbreaking’ J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling 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 ‘A haunting and beautiful novel about a desperate attempt to live in the present despite the tidal pull of the past.’ Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake 'Heartbreaking, sexy, and full of humour … With elegant language and profound insight, Honor Jones transforms a story of family secrets into something utterly fresh, original, and exhilarating' Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming


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