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Undue Influence by Anita Brookner
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Towards the End of the Morning
Michael Frayn - 1967
This tale is set in the crossword and nature-notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street.
The House of Sleep
Jonathan Coe - 1997
Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings that arise from her condition. Terry spends his wakeful nights fueling his obsession with movies. And an increasingly unstable doctor, Gregory, sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which he must eradicate.But after ten years of fretful slumber and dreams gone bad, the four reunite in their college town to confront their disorders. In a Gothic cliffside manor being used as a clinic for sleep disorders, they discover that neither love, nor lunacy, nor obsession ever rests.