The Second Sleep
From the bestselling author of Conclave
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3.2 • 99 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
WHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST?
'Wonderful, compulsive reading. Buy it tomorrow. Tonight if possible.' STEPHEN KING'
'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative.' SUNDAY TIMES
'Genuinely thrilling.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land.
He must arrive at a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor before night falls. He's lost and he's becoming anxious as he slowly picks his way across a countryside strewn with the ancient artefacts of a civilisation that seems to have ended in cataclysm.
What Fairfax cannot know is that, in the days and weeks to come, everything he believes in will be tested as he uncovers a secret that is as dangerous as it is terrifying . . .
'[Harris] takes us on a thrilling ride while serving up serious food for thought.' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'A truly surprising future-history thriller. Fabulous, really.' EVENING STANDARD
'The book's real power lies in its between-the-lines warning that our embrace of the internet represents some kind of sleepwalk into oblivion. It's a provocative, tub-thumping sci-fi of which H. G. Wells might have been proud.' DAILY MAIL
'Harris' latest work intelligently warps historical fiction and tackles issues of religion, science and the apocalypse in the process. As he flexes his imagination, you will be left pondering as often as you are page-turning.' HERALD
'A brilliantly imaginative thriller' READER'S DIGEST
Robert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024
Customer Reviews
This was a good story
A well paced, with good characters in a world easy to believe:)
Cautionary tale or prophecy
Dystopian and familiar at the same time. Starting like a 19th century novel about village life then seemingly going forward and backwards through time simultaneously.
Hope amid futility
A story of hope amid futility, set in a tiny village in Wessex in an alternative contemporary England. Harris deftly digs a trap into which the reader plummets without warning - only three chapters in, they may well restart the novel simply to relive that epic 'aha!' moment. A series of unsettling events keeps the reader off balance right up to the conclusion, which is one of the starkest and bravest in contemporary English speculative fiction