Sleepwalking - Softcover

The first page had me gripped. With its fantastic plot and characters this book will have you reading for hours! This is yet another great novel from this fantastic writer. Thumbs up. (Richard Annand, Liberton High Teen Titles)

A thrilling and intelligently written vision of the future that works on many levels. It throws up questions we should all be thinking about but never loses the plot at the expense of ideas. A chilling read (Young Post)

An excellent sci-fi thriller, which also manages to articulate a passionate plea for literacy and dissent (Books For Keeps)

Nicola Morgan's rich imagination means she'll never be typecast ... an intriguing read, as well as a thrilling one (The Guardian)

About FLESHMARKET

This is a tough thriller, a delicate love story and a powerfully evocative historical novel. At its heart is a young man's obsession with the mother he lost under horrendous, bizarre circumstances. Set in Edinburgh at a time in which the city was at the vanguard of medical advance, Morgan reveals the deep moral dilemmas that accompanied meaningful research at the time. Her descriptions of Edinburgh's Old Town, decaying, corrupt and dangerous, are extraordinarily vivid. Lives were cheap, both within and out of the medical faculty. Morgan is a confident, courageous and honest writer. Fleshmarket is a tour de force, from its attention-grabbing prologue onwards. (Lindsay Fraser)

SLEEPWALKING:

Outstanding ... a book that deserves attention (The Bookseller)

A dramatic and thought-provoking book. Nicola Morgan is a fine writer. (David Almond)

Sleepwalking is an excellent book which tells you how important literature and the English language are in our lives. It is about a future world divided into . . . The Educated Outsiders and Citizens . . . I would recommend it to everyone. Nicola Morgan is a local diamond of a writer. (Book Review Magazine)

The Citizens of this future world drift contentedly, their every emotion regulated. There is no pain, no suffering, no evil. And no freedom. Just safety and drug-induced happiness. But a small group, known as the Outsiders, crave real emotion, real freedom, even suffering. To them, the power of ideas and language cannot die - it is essential to being human. And they have a plan to change society. For years, a group of 'special' young people have been raised to have the strength and knowledge to overthrow the system. Now, when a deadly virus strikes, four of these teenagers, Livia, Cassandra, Marcus and Tavius must act quickly to infiltrate the sinister headquarters of the Governators and corrupt the system. But their plan carries enormous risk. Can they discover the chilling secret behind this saccharine dystopia? Are they really only 'handfuls of dust and splinters of bone'?