The Sleeper

A mystery from the past becomes a terrifying ordeal in the present, and a traditional family Christmas turns into a nightmare. In a wintry seaside resort an old woman goes missing from her residential hotel for the elderly, the inappropriately named Happy Haven. And in a remote farmhouse not far away, the Moon family gathers for its traditional Christmas.As gales and blizzards cut off power and maroon the Christmas gathering, where did the body come from that is swept into the farmhouse cellar by the rising flood water? The Sleeper is a marvellously gripping novel assuring Gillian White's place amongst today's top writers of contemporary fiction.