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The Cure for Sleep

By: Tanya Shadrick
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What happens when you realise that you must change your life?

When—after years of hiding in routine, shrinking from opportunity, and sleepwalking through your days—you know you want more.

How do you remake your life without breaking it?

The Cure for Sleep is the stunning memoir of a smalltown wife and mother who returns from sudden near-death determined to live her second life on a larger, braver scale—whatever it takes, or costs.
©2022 Tanya Shadrick (P)2022 Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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"Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure." (Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun)

"She is fearless in her depiction of female desire—I think many women will find themselves in these pages." (Katherine May, author of Wintering) 

"Such a bold, brave, and beautiful story about birth, death, rebirth and building a larger life." (Charlie Gilmour, author of Featherhood) 

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A deeply moving and thought provoking book. Both emotionally stirring with wounded defeat and also determined achievement. A book most honest, raw, rich and lasting in impact.

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I am weeping as I reach the end. I don’t know why. But that’s the kind of book this is… beautifully written; explanatory for how we end up the way we do, and one woman’s attempt to escape shadows and peel back the layers to her essential self. A quest for art, beauty, and meaning…

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