Sleeping Children

Without ever raising your voice, you have shattered the family silence that scabbed over tragedy and produced a work so powerful, so moving that it lingers long after reading. Magnificent!Annie Ernaux, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Sleeping Children is a supremely skilful account of Aids, drugs and 1980s France . . . as a work of social history covering decades, [it] is illuminating and effective . . . it will be a tough reader who doesn’t choke back a tearThe Telegraph

A beautiful testament to the power of storytellingSuzanne Smith, nb.

Moving and articulate, precise and sweeping . . . one of the best books I’ve read in a long timeDouglas Greenwood, i-D