A year without sleep: 'At night, I felt feral, like a wild animal'

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A year without sleep: 'At night, I felt feral, like a wild animal'
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A year without sleep drove Samantha Harvey to the brink of madness, so she wrote her way back

“Dust and ashes though I am, I sleep the sleep of angels,” runs the opening line of Samantha Harvey’s 2018 novel, The Western Wind, a thoughtful historical whodunit that drew comparisons with Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy. Two years later, Harvey is cradling an oat milk coffee in a cosy London café and telling me: “I don’t know the person who wrote that line.”

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