The Shapeless Unease

The Booker Prize–winning author of Orbital delivers a “raw and unsettling account of 12 months of inexplicable insomnia” ( The Sunday Times , UK). In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help. The Shapeless Unease is Harvey’s darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one