Novelist Samantha Harvey had always been a good sleeper until a house move and anxiety about post referendum politics left her anxious ... she recalls her panic at being awake for 60 hours at a time - and her hunt for a cure
Into bed and lie down. Head goes on pillow. Out of bed; superstitiously plucking the strewn clothes from the floor to fold them into rough bundles and put them away – one of countless little routines undertaken to forfend a sleepless night. One of countless little routines forcibly dismissed as superstition, in the superstition that superstitious acts will only shorten the odds of sleep – but unignorable in the end. Needs must.
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