While honeymooning on a tiny Greek island, Evelyn is wary of the hotels owner, Isabella, who only wants to impress an American producer with the story of the sleepwalkers, a couple who drowned at the hotel, turning their vacation into a living nightmare that forces them to face some dark truths.
From one of the UKs most interesting authors (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lotus in this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic story following a couple running from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.
Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. Its the end of the season and a storm is imminent. Determined to make the best of it, they check into the sun-soaked doors of the Villa Rosa. Already feeling insecure after seeing the beautiful people, the seemingly endless number of young models and musicians lounging along the Mediterranean, Evelyn is wary of the hotels owner, Isabella, who seems to only have eyes for Richard.
Isabella ostensibly disapproves of every request Evelyn makes, seemingly annoyed at the fact that they are there at all. Isabella is also preoccupied with her chance to enthrall the only other guestsan American producer named Marcus and his partner Debbiewith the story of the sleepwalkers, a couple who had stayed at the hotel recently and drowned.
Everyone seems to want to talk about the sleepwalkers, save for Hamza, a young Turkish man Evelyn had seen with some beautiful people, as well as the dapper little manthe strange yet fashionable owner of the islands lone antiques and gift shop she sees everywhere.
But what at first seemed eccentric, decorative, or simply ridiculous, becomes a living nightmare. Evelyn and Richard are separated the night of the storm and forced to face dark truths, but its their confessions around the origins of their relationship and the years leading up to their marriage that might save them.
Exhilarating, suspenseful, and also very funny, The Sleepwalkers asks urgent questions about relationships, sexuality, and the darkest elements of contemporary societywhere our most terrible secrets are hidden in plain sight.
