The Sleep Room

By F.R. Tallis

Book Overview

When promising young psychiatrist James Richardson is offered the job opportunity of a lifetime by the charismatic Dr. Hugh Maitland, he is thrilled. Setting off to take up his post at Wyldehope Hall in deepest Suffolk, Richardson doesn't look back. One of his tasks is to manage Maitland's most controversial project--a pioneering therapy in which extremely disturbed patients are kept asleep for months. If this radical and potentially dangerous procedure is successful, it could mean professional glory for both doctors.

As Richardson settles into his new life, he begins to sense something uncanny about the sleeping patients--six women, forsaken by society. Why is Maitland unwilling to discuss their past lives? Why is the trainee nurse so on edge when she spends nights alone with them? And what can it mean when all the sleepers start dreaming at the same time? In this atmospheric reinvention of the ghost story, Richardson finds himself questioning everything he knows about the human mind, as he attempts to uncover the shocking secrets of the Sleep Room . . .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605988332
• ISBN13: 9781605988337
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Not My Favorite

I felt like the book was a consistent build to nothing. I was waiting for the big EVENT, but it didn't come until the end, which in my opinion felt like a cop-out just to get the book finished. On the brighter side, it would be a really good movie! I could vividly make out a scene in my head the entire time. The writer wrote very well, but the book just didn't go anywhere.