The Sleeper

The best speculative thriller I have ever, ever read Gillian McAllister

Moving, thought-provoking and utterly gripping. I couldnt put it down, and read it in a single day Sophie Hannah

Seddon takes the reader on a harrowing journey through an authoritarian state much like the one in George Orwells 1984Booklist

Librarian Maya is traveling home from Edinburgh to London when her sleeper train is struck by lightning. She wakes the next morning in a version of London she doesnt recognize.

Not only is a stranger living in her apartment, but her husband Arthur has disappeared. Worse, in this reality, the Berlin Wall never fell, the Cold War never ended, and Britain is an authoritarian Soviet state. Mayas parents did not kiss by the falling Berlin wall while on their gap year travels, and so Maya was never born.

Confused, alone, and with nowhere to go, Maya stumbles across the resistance movement, in which librarians like her play a key part. Sent undercover into the heart of government, Maya must navigate this terrifying world while desperately trying to find the people she loves — and a way home.