Sleepwalking

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<p>Susan finds her year-old marriage to Alistair less than ideal. Just as she contemplates leaving him, she discovers that she is pregnant with his child. As she grapples with this news, she learns that her loathed father has killed himself. Left confused and bereft by these developments and haunted by visions of a little boy, she meets a seductive young painter and, despite knowing it could lead to crisis, begins an affair with him in her eighth month of pregnancy.</p><p>Told with an eye for startling details and an unerring sense for psychological truth, this harrowing, passionate, obsessively compelling literary debut captures the reality of a young woman's inner landscape while spinning a tale that will hypnotise readers to its last satisfying pages.</p>

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Julie Myerson is the author of<i>Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House</i>and nine novels, including the best-selling<i>Something Might Happen</i>, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. In the words of the<i>Observer</i>, she 'has a talent for making the unthinkable readable. The results are riveting.'

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