The Sleepwalkers

＂Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It’s 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 hotel’s 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 guests--an American producer named Marcus and his partner Debbie--with the story of ’the sleepwalkers,’ a couple who had stayed at the hotel recently and drowned＂

Scarlett Thomas was born in London. She is the author of the Worldquake series. She is also the author of nine books for adults, including Oligarchy, PopCo, The End of Mr. Y, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2007 (formerly known as Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction), and Our Tragic Universe. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.