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Insomnia: A chilling psychological thriller of 2022 from the queen of twists and the No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES, now a Netflix series! by [Sarah Pinborough]

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Insomnia: A chilling psychological thriller of 2022 from the queen of twists and the No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES, now a Netflix series! Kindle Edition

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In the dead of night, madness lies…

Emma can’t sleep.

CHECK THE WINDOWS

It’s been like this since her big 4-0 started getting closer.

LOCK THE DOORS

Her mother stopped sleeping just before her 40th birthday too. She went mad and did the unthinkable because of it.

LOOK IN ON THE CHILDREN

Is that what’s happening to Emma?

WHY CAN’T SHE SLEEP?

Praise for Insomnia

‘If you loved Behind Her Eyes, prepare to be totally and utterly blown away by Insomnia. Sarah Pinborough is a twisted genius’ Lisa Jewell

‘Pinborough writes like an absolute dream about an absolute nightmare. I loved it!’ Richard Osman

‘Another mind-twisting, genre-bending rollercoaster from Queen of WTF Sarah Pinborough’ Ruth Ware

‘Queen of the impossible, this heart pounding thriller will have you up all night’ Clare Mackintosh

‘Creepy as all get out – a gaslighting masterclass’ Ian Rankin

‘Pinborough’s unsettling, remorseless psychological thriller is horribly plausible and expertly plotted’ Sunday Times

'Insomnia is a twisted, dark ride that keeps you gripped, unable to look away. Utterly addictive and highly recommended’ Lucy Clarke

‘Don't start this at night – it's guaranteed to steal your sleep’ Cara Hunter

‘One crazy sleepless ride building up to a hideously tense climax. Expertly done – Sarah Pinborough is the queen of unsettling, twisty reads’ Harriet Tyce

'This terrifying thriller about a family under threat from within is a total page-turner’ Gilly Macmillan

‘Absolutely brilliant, completely unputdownable and so satisfying’ Jenny Colgan

‘A whip smart page turning triumph’ Jane Shemilt

‘Compelling and alarming with just a touch of the paranormal’ Catherine Cooper

‘An absolute must-read’ Joe Hill

‘Well crafted and insanely clever’ C. M. Ewan

'A genuine up all night, compellingly twisty thriller of a book' Araminta Hall

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346 pages
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HarperCollins
Publication date

31 Mar. 2022
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Why Can't She Sleep, The shocking new thriller from the queen of twists, Insomnia


	Cross Her Heart	Behind Her Eyes	Dead to Her	Insomnia
	WARNING: Will keep you up all night	*Now a major new Netflix series* Don’t Trust This Book	Her life is perfect. She won't let anyone destroy it.	In the dead of night, madness lies... The shocking new thriller from the queen of twists.

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‘If you loved Behind Her Eyes, prepare to be totally and utterly blown away by Insomnia. Sarah Pinborough is a twisted genius’ Lisa Jewell

‘Pinborough writes like an absolute dream about an absolute nightmare. I loved it!’ Richard Osman

‘Another mind-twisting, genre-bending rollercoaster from Queen of WTF Sarah Pinborough’ Ruth Ware

‘Queen of the impossible, this heart pounding thriller will have you up all night’ Clare Mackintosh

‘Creepy as all get out – a gaslighting masterclass’ Ian Rankin

‘Pinborough’s unsettling, remorseless psychological thriller is horribly plausible and expertly plotted’ Sunday Times

'Insomnia is a twisted, dark ride that keeps you gripped, unable to look away. Utterly addictive and highly recommended’ Lucy Clarke

‘Dark, tense and intense, with Pinborough's trademark under-shiver of the uncanny. Don't start this at night – it's guaranteed to steal your sleep’ Cara Hunter

‘One crazy sleepless ride building up to a hideously tense climax. Expertly done – Sarah Pinborough is the queen of unsettling, twisty reads’ Harriet Tyce

'Sarah Pinborough is the master of the unexpected and Insomnia does not disappoint… a total page-turner’ Gilly Macmillan

‘Absolutely brilliant, completely unputdownable and so satisfying – Pinborough just gets better and better’ Jenny Colgan

‘A whip smart page turning triumph’ Jane Shemilt

‘Compelling and alarming with just a touch of the paranormal – very clever’ Catherine Cooper

‘An absolute must-read…The pages fly and the revelations deliver shock after shock’ Joe Hill

‘Well crafted and insanely clever’ C. M. Ewan

'A genuine up all night, compellingly twisty thriller of a book' Araminta Hall

‘A mind-bending read that’s perfect for fans of Stephen King’ Stylist

‘The queen of the psychological thriller’ Prima

Praise for Sarah Pinborough

‘An absolute rollercoaster of a ride’ Lucy Foley

‘Bloody brilliant' Stephen King

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From the Back Cover

In the dead of night, madness lies…

Emma can’t sleep.

CHECK THE WINDOWS

It’s been like this since her big 4-0 started getting closer.

LOCK THE DOORS

Her mother stopped sleeping just before her 40th birthday too. She went mad and did the unthinkable because of it.

LOOK IN ON THE CHILDREN

Is that what’s happening to Emma?

WHY CAN’T SHE SLEEP?

Praise for Insomnia

‘Creepy as all get out – a gaslighting masterclass’ Ian Rankin

‘A twisted, dark ride that keeps you gripped, unable to look away. Utterly addictive and highly recommended’ Lucy Clarke, author of The Castaways

‘Dark, tense and intense…don’t start this at night – it’s guaranteed to steal your sleep’ Cara Hunter

‘One crazy sleepless ride building up to a hideously tense climax. Sarah Pinborough is the queen of unsettling, twisty reads’ Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange

‘Absolutely brilliant, completely unputdownable and so satisfying – Pinborough just gets better and better’ Jenny Colgan

‘A whip smart page turning triumph’ Jane Shemilt, author of Daughter

‘Compelling and alarming with just a touch of the paranormal – very clever’ Catherine Cooper, author of The Chalet

‘An absolute must-read…The pages fly and the revelations deliver shock after shock’ Joe Hill

‘A genuine up all night, compellingly twisty thriller of a book’ Araminta Hall, author of Perfect Strangers --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08S75DD85
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins (31 Mar. 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1859 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 346 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0008289131

Best Sellers Rank: 7,845 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Sarah Pinborough is a New York Times bestselling and Sunday Times Number one and Internationally bestselling author who is published in over 30 territories worldwide. Having published more than 25 novels across various genres, her recent books include Behind Her Eyes, now a smash hit Netflix limited series, Dead To Her, now in development with Amazon Studios, and 13 Minutes and The Death House in development with Compelling Pictures.

Sarah was the 2009 winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story and also the 2010 and 2014 winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella, and she has four times been short-listed for Best Novel and was shortlisted for the British Book Award for best Thriller.

Sarah lives in the historic town of Stony Stratford, the home of the Cock and Bull story, with her dog Ted.

You can follow her on Twitter @sarahpinborough

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NJL1974

Don’t bother

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2022

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An average thriller with an irritating heroine, this careers into ‘utter drivel’ territory in the last 40 pages. In an effort to avoid spoilers, I will simply say that it suddenly becomes absolutely obvious that this is written by the same author as ‘Behind her Eyes’, for whom a logical ending is never as much fun as an absurd and hysterical one. You have been warned…

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Mrs Sarah Farmer-Wright

Grippingly sinister!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2022

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Emma is approaching her 40th birthday with huge trepidation. Her mother's mental health significantly deteriorated when she turned 40 and she had always warned Emma that she had inherited her "bad blood". Emma's mother was eventually placed into a secure unit and now Emma fears the same thing happening to her.
A series of events cause Emma to question her own sanity but is she going mad or are there darker forces at play?
As her marriage, her job and her friendships begin to disintegrate it forces Emma's behaviour to become even more erratic and she becomes increasingly desperate to understand what is happening and to prove that she's not going mad. Or is she?
This is a really gripping read which I found difficult to put down. The author deftly and skilfully builds up the tension so much so that Emma's desperation is viscerally palpable and has you rapidly turning the pages.
It's a dark, sinister and creepy read that literally crackles with tension right until the very end. This is the first book I've read by this author and it won't be the last!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2022

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This was my first Sarah Pinborough novel, which was picked by the online book of the month club. For me it did start off slowly but it certainly picked up the pace and I couldn't stop reading it. I found myself flying through the pages wanting to know more. This was a well crafted story, with well developed characters. Emma's paranoia grated on me to start with, but actually it developed well with the pace of story, and through Sarah's writing I could feel the build up.

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I think the epilogue was needed for me to have the feeling of a completed story, and I have downloaded another Pinborough novel!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 June 2022

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I read this new stunner by Sarah Pinsborough in a matter of days. The plot is complex and believable and will keep you guessing throughout. I'd make up my mind that Emma had to be guilty and then something would make me doubt this conclusion and around my thoughts would go. Characterisation too was brilliant and each sub-plot was beautifully woven into the whole. I'm still trying to get my head around ouburros and I think it's a story that will stay with me for a long time. Brilliant and highly recommended.

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julie young

Unsettling, brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2022

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When Emma finds herself unable to sleep the more sleep deprived she is the more her grip on reality loosens. When strange things begin to happen in her home and to her family, Emma is terrified that she has inherited her mother's mental illness. This book has a dense of dread, unease running through from beginning to end. The lengths people are prepared to go to in their search for justice / revenge is scarily real. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will definitely read more by this author.

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Val

Poor writing, weak plot

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2022

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It was obvious from the beginning "whodunnit". Also, I really hate the advertising that tells me beforehand that it's a "gripping tale...with a psychological twist" that I "won't see coming..."....
Isn't, hasn't, did....

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Jonesi

Hmmm

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2022

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Initially I loved the book, but then somewhere after half way it just kinda went on and on and on about the same thing over and over again and I found it really tedious. I finished it, just to find out what was actually going on but to be honest I could have read the beginning, skipped most of the middle and went to the end and wouldn’t have missed much.

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Carla Warren

Gripping. Twisty. Unputdownable.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 June 2022

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INSOMNIA…

This book gave me insomnia. I had to stay up to continue reading I really did. I needed to know what was going to happen and it was giving nothing away.

It was so unpredictable I could not work it out.

Such a well written novel it was just unputdownable.

The full five stars from me highly recommended.

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