A world where you could, even, die of sleep rather than in your sleep. Karen Thompson Walker's second novel is stunning, the story of a Californian town's epidemic of perpetual sleep. Praise for the Dreamers: ‘a modern Midsummer Night’s Dream... In this wonderful novel, Walker paints a haunting Canvas exploring time, memory, consciousness, and youth’ marisha pessl, author of night film ‘frighteningly powerful, beautiful, and uncanny, the Dreamers is a love story and also a horror story - a symphonic achievement, Alternating intimate moments with a panoramic capture of a crisis in progress’ Karen Russell, author of vampires in the Lemon Grove: and other Stories ‘what a book! I read the Dreamers in a dream of sorts myself, entirely transported into Karen Thompson Walker’s world of mysterious tragedy and infinite, if unexpected, compassion. This is a profound novel, and a deeply moving one. How she takes a terrifying situation and reveals it as a thing of beauty, a lesson in the human spirit, is a mystery to me, but she does exactly that, and fortunate readers will celebrate this extraordinary book’ Robin black, author of life drawing.