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    Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups
    Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups
    Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups
    Audiobook12 hours

    Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups

    Written by Ben Holden

    Narrated by Ben Holden, Sandra Duncan, Luke Thompson and

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    There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health?
    In this groundbreaking anthology, Ben Holden, editor of the bestselling Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, challenges how we think about life, a third of which is spent asleep. He deftly explores not only the science of sleep but also why we endlessly tell stories – even to ourselves, as we dream.
    Holden combines his own illuminating storytelling with a treasure trove of timeless classics and contemporary gems. Poems and short stories, fairy tales and fables, reveries and nocturnes – from William Shakespeare to Haruki Murakami, Charles Dickens to Roald Dahl, Rabindranath Tagore to Nora Ephron, Vladimir Nabokov to Neil Gaiman – are all woven together to replicate the journey of a single night’s sleep.
    Some of today’s greatest storytellers reveal their choice of the ideal grown-up bedtime story: writers such as Margaret Drabble, Ken Follett, Tessa Hadley, Robert Macfarlane, Patrick Ness, Tony Robinson and Warsan Shire.
    Fold away your laptop and shut down your mobile phone. Curl up and crash out with the ultimate bedside book, one you’ll return to again and again. Full of laughter and tears, moonlight and magic, Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups joyfully provides the dream way to end the day – and begin the night . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio UK
    Release dateFeb 23, 2017
    ISBN9781471164149
    Author

    Ben Holden

    Ben Holden is a writer and film producer. He lives in London and studied English at Merton College, Oxford. With his father Anthony, Ben edited the bestselling Poems That Make Grown Men Cry and Poems That Make Grown Women Cry.

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    • 1/5
      Not for me, found it kinda annoying actually. Can’t recommend it.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      What are they thinking?? Where is the story?? Telling me about sleeping is not a story. It is agitating, relentless data.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      It was difficult getting through the first chapter. I wish they'd just told actual stories instead of reading poems about evening.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Just beautiful ❤️
      Would listen to it again and again!!!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Great collection of beautiful works, both new and classic alike
    • 1/5
      The introduction was relentless dribble about sleep and bedtime ritual. The first hour was relentlessly boring poetry and prose read to both annoy you and disrupt any sleep you planned to have.

      Not recommended.
    • 1/5
      It's not what it promised. Disappointed. Stories we expect. Bad poems instead.