Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It

** AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK IN DECEMBER 2022 **

'Curious, lively, humble, utterly genuine ... a remarkable debut.' SUNDAY TIMES

Alice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in her bedroom.

Ever since she was a child, her nights have been haunted by nightmares of a figure from her adolescence, sinister hallucinations and episodes of sleepwalking. These are known as 'parasomnias' - and they're surprisingly common.

Now a lecturer in Creative Writing, Vernon set out to understand t...