Bibliograph

The cure for sleep, memoir of a late-waking life, Tanya Shadrick

Type

Label

The cure for sleep, memoir of a late-waking life, Tanya Shadrick

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The cure for sleep

Responsibility statement

Tanya Shadrick

Sub title

memoir of a late-waking life

Summary

Just days into motherhood, a woman begins dying. Fast and without warning. On return from near-death, Tanya Shadrick vows to stop sleepwalking through life. To take more risks, like the characters in the fairy tales she loved as a small girl, before loss and fear had her retreat into routine and daydreams. Around the care of young children, she starts to play with the shape and scale of her days: to stray from the path, get lost in the woods, make bargains with strangers. As she moves beyond her respectable roles as worker, wife and mother in a small town, Tanya learns what it takes - and costs - to break the spell of longing for love, approval, safety, rescue

Table Of Contents

Last minutes -- A slipped skin -- First life -- Digger, dreamer -- Child -- Young woman -- Bride -- Reincarnation -- Stripped bare -- Second coming -- Body electric -- Mother -- Swimmer -- Outsider -- Exhibitionist -- Lover of unreason -- Limbo -- Shape-shifting -- Third age -- After all -- Last rites

Target audience

adult

Classification