How To Sleep At Night
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- 18,99 €
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- 18,99 €
Publisher Description
A SUNDAY TIMES HOTTEST READ OF 2025
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025
'Sparkles with wit and insight… A must-read' DOLLY ALDERTON
'Extraordinary' DAILY MAIL
'An irresistible comedy of manners' MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Deliciously chaotic… feverishly funny – Harris has gleeful fun dissecting this timely tale' THE TIMES, Book of the Month
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Shared bed. Different dreams…
Meet Ethan and Gabe: a devoted couple with an adorable daughter and a house in the suburbs. They may have drifted to different ends of the political spectrum, but their marriage still has its spark. Then Ethan makes a shocking announcement: he wants to run for Congress as a Republican. And he will only do it with progressive Gabe’s blessing.
Kate is a political reporter at a major newspaper, but the adrenaline rush of chasing a story has lost its thrill. When her ex-girlfriend Nicole – now married and feeling like an accessory in her husband’s life – slides into her DMs just as her brother Ethan starts his controversial congressional run, Kate’s life is thrown into a tailspin that threatens to derail the success she’s worked so hard to achieve.
A sharply observed comedy of manners about public image versus private life, How to Sleep at Night is a witty and whip-smart novel that dissects family ties stretched thin by politics.
'Funny, charming… infused with warmth, depth and engrossing storylines' WASHINGTON POST
'Has the feel of whispered secrets exchanged over cocktails with your smartest friend' JENNY JACKSON
'Insightful, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny… a delight' J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN
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WHAT READERS ARE LOVING:
'A beautifully layered book about the complexities of love, ambition, and self-discovery' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I feel like I know every character in this book. A joy from start to finish, and I didn’t want to put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'A perfect read for our times… I read it in one day' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
About the author
Elizabeth Harris has been a reporter at the New York Times since 2009. During that time, she’s covered a range of beats, including education, business, politics, and the arts. Her work has been honored with awards from the New York Press Club and the Silurians Press Club, and a series she wrote about book banning received an award from the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. Elizabeth grew up in New York City and studied English at Oberlin college.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Harris's timely debut, a gay man's husband runs for Congress as a Republican, testing their marriage, and two women contend with the fallout from their long-ago love affair. Gabe Alter has been with Ethan Keller for 20 years. When they met, they were both Democrats, but over time, Ethan has drifted to the right. After Ethan floats his plan to enter the Republican primary, Gabe confides in Ethan's sister, Kate, a newspaper reporter, about his hesitation to support Ethan's long-held dream of entering politics. Gabe finds Ethan's small-government views abhorrent, and worries he'll no longer be seen as a staunch leftist if he backs Ethan, but that if he doesn't, they'll lose each other. A parallel narrative follows Kate's ex Nicole Harmon, a stay-at-home mom who dated Kate in her 20s. When Kate learns her newspaper is planning to run an article about Ethan's past DUI, she warns him, knowing there might be consequences to her career, while Nicole struggles with feeling invisible as a queer person, given her marriage to a man. As Kate and Nicole reconnect, Nicole hopes to rediscover that part of herself. The political material is a bit simplistic, but the characters are well-drawn, and the story moves at a brisk clip as it builds to Election Day. It adds up to a satisfying story of middle-aged reckonings.
