Are You Awake?: : Sarah Crossan: Bloomsbury Publishing

Are You Awake?

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'Funny and dark. Tender and tough. Uncanny and relatable.' Erin Kelly
'Deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard-hitting' Claire Kilroy
'Blends comedy, drama and heartbreak' John Boyne
'A really clever novel' Cecelia Ahern
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On an ordinary morning in an ordinary house, a woman discovers a secret her husband has been keeping. It is a secret that explodes their marriage.

As Dolores grapples with her new reality, she unwillingly delves into her past to work out how she got here, unpicking the seams of the relationships that have built her. She's a sister, a daughter, a wife, a teacher. How much does her past have to influence her present? Can't she just forgive and forget?

And most importantly: what is a woman for, anyway?
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'Bleak, but also hilarious ... Crossan's deadpan style is bone dry' Daily Mail
'A singular writer with her own style and conviction' Irish Times
'Inventive, astute and funny' Observer
'A roller-coaster read' i
'Dark humour ... offbeat tenderness ... plenty to say about contemporary intimacy' Mail on Sunday

Product details

Published	03 Jul 2025
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	320
ISBN	9781526696687
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Highly inventive, astute and funny ... A thought-provoking reflection on loneliness, love and the search for connection

Observer
Hilarious … Crossan's deadpan style is bone-dry, and Dolores's conversations with Zoey are the best bits of all

Daily Mail
Deep, relatable, depressing, and darkly funny ... Crossan has a knack for capturing utterly normal conversations and trains of thought in ways that are arresting ... Propelled by its style and by the beauty of its prose … Keeps the reader gripped until the last page … It is a deep exploration of the intricacies of human connections and intimacy, as well as an examination of trauma (especially childhood trauma) and its ability to influence our lives, even if we are determined not to let it do so

Irish Independent
A singular writer with her own style and conviction ... Thought-provoking ... How do we write about trauma? Ask Sarah Crossan

The Times
Dark humour and offbeat tenderness enhance the intense readability of a book that has plenty to say about contemporary intimacy

Mail on Sunday
Funny and dark. Tender and tough. Uncanny and relatable ... A searing novel about true intimacy and the things humans will do to protect themselves from it. You've never read anything quite like it, and only Sarah Crossan could have written it

Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key and Watch Her Fall