The book of dreams: a novel

✍ Scribed by George, Nina;Pare, Simon

• Publisher: Crown/Archetype
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 341 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1471168344

✦ Synopsis

**Warm, wise, and magical --the latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death **
Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place.

After the accident, Sam--a thirteen-year old synesthete with an IQ of 144 and an appetite for science fiction--waits by his father's bedside every day. There he meets Eddie Tomlin, a woman forced to confront her love for Henri after all these years, and twelve-year old Madelyn Zeidler, a coma patient like Henri and the sole survivor of a traffic accident that killed her...

✦ Subjects

Life change events -- Fiction