Celestial Dreamers

Tera Pascoe, armed with a Psychology degree that has so far been useless to her, has retreated to her dead parent’s house on the remote Western Australian coast, where she ekes out a lonely existence as a part-time librarian and child-minder. Her only real companion is Alice Liddell (yes, the one who went to Wonderland) who was her childhood imaginary friend and is still hanging around now that Tera is in her thirties.
But Tera discovers that people living along a narrow band are dreaming exactly the same dream. Moreover, it appears that each person who has dreamed the strange dream appears to become more intelligent. She realises that each ‘victim’ lives along the same parallel of Latitude—29° South and needs to be in the REM state when the centre of the galaxy passes overhead. Moreover, the band is rapidly expanding.