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Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups


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226
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8
Release Date
February 23, 2017
Duration
13 hours 0 minutes
Summary
There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health?
In this groundbreaking anthology, Ben Holden, editor of the bestselling Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, challenges how we think about life, a third of which is spent asleep. He deftly explores not only the science of sleep but also why we endlessly tell stories – even to ourselves, as we dream.
Holden combines his own illuminating storytelling with a treasure trove of timeless classics and contemporary gems. Poems and short stories, fairy tales and fables, reveries and nocturnes – from William Shakespeare to Haruki Murakami, Charles Dickens to Roald Dahl, Rabindranath Tagore to Nora Ephron, Vladimir Nabokov to Neil Gaiman – are all woven together to replicate the journey of a single night’s sleep.
Some of today’s greatest storytellers reveal their choice of the ideal grown-up bedtime story: writers such as Margaret Drabble, Ken Follett, Tessa Hadley, Robert Macfarlane, Patrick Ness, Tony Robinson and Warsan Shire.
Fold away your laptop and shut down your mobile phone. Curl up and crash out with the ultimate bedside book, one you’ll return to again and again. Full of laughter and tears, moonlight and magic, Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups joyfully provides the dream way to end the day – and begin the night . . .
Reviews
Profile Avatar Jen Vance Jun 2021

this book is so terrible I wish I could return it

Profile Avatar Jennifer S Nov 2017

It seems the purpose of this book is to bore the listener to sleep. Sometimes it works, other times it irritates and wakes me.

Profile Avatar Shay J. May 2021

So long and very boring

Profile Avatar Peter Vermeulen Jul 2022

Good start but fizzles out and gets darker and darker. Not good for sleeping

Profile Avatar Anonymous Aug 2021

I cannot recommend this book. It will send you to sleep, but not in a good way.

Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups

Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups

Author: Ben Holden
Read by: Ben Holden
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