How To Sleep At Night: Unabridged edition

By Elizabeth Harris, Read by Gabra Zackman

A SUNDAY TIMES HOTTEST READ OF 2025

A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025

‘Sparkles with wit and insight… A must-read’ DOLLY ALDERTON

‘Extraordinary’ DAILY MAIL

‘An irresistible comedy of manners’ MAIL ON SUNDAY

‘Deliciously chaotic… feverishly funny – Harris has gleeful fun dissecting this timely tale’ THE TIMES, Book of the Month

Shared bed. Different dreams…

Meet Ethan and Gabe: a devoted couple with an adorable daughter and a house in the suburbs. They may have drifted to different ends of the political spectrum, but their marriage still has its spark. Then Ethan makes a shocking announcement: he wants to run for Congress as a Republican. And he will only do it with progressive Gabe’s blessing.

Kate is a political reporter at a major newspaper, but the adrenaline rush of chasing a story has lost its thrill. When her ex-girlfriend Nicole – now married and feeling like an accessory in her husband’s life – slides into her DMs just as her brother Ethan starts his controversial congressional run, Kate’s life is thrown into a tailspin that threatens to derail the success she’s worked so hard to achieve.

A sharply observed comedy of manners about public image versus private life, How to Sleep at Night is a witty and whip-smart novel that dissects family ties stretched thin by politics.

‘Funny, charming… infused with warmth, depth and engrossing storylines’ WASHINGTON POST

‘Has the feel of whispered secrets exchanged over cocktails with your smartest friend’ JENNY JACKSON

‘Insightful, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny… a delight’ J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN

Format: Audio-Book
Release Date: 16 Jan 2025
Pages: None
ISBN: 978-0-00-872687-4
Detailed Edition: Unabridged edition
Elizabeth Harris has been a reporter at the New York Times since 2009. During that time, she’s covered a range of beats, including education, business, politics, and the arts. Her work has been honored with awards from the New York Press Club and the Silurians Press Club, and a series she wrote about book banning received an award from the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. Elizabeth grew up in New York City and studied English at Oberlin college.

”Sparkles with wit and insight, diving headfirst into the tangled web of marriage, identity, and the politics that threaten to pull us apart. As Ethan and Gabe navigate their conflicting dreams, I found myself laughing and gasping in equal measure. A true testament to the complexities of modern relationships” - this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever wondered how to bridge the gap between who we are and who we aspire to be

Deliciously chaotic… feverishly funny - Harris has gleeful fun dissecting this timely tale of politics at its most personal -

Rollicking and compulsively readable, How to Sleep at Night is about what happens when the line between salvaging and sabotaging a life in crisis gets seriously blurry. So relatable you’ll scream -

A sharply funny exploration of marriage and ambition, How to Sleep at Night has the feel of whispered secrets exchanged over cocktails with your smartest friend -

A sharp and often funny study of modern America mores… Readers of all political hues will enjoy Harris’s witty and well-paced narrative -

Extraordinary… great on the dangers of focusing on differences rather than similarities -

Harris's irresistible comedy of manners weds sly domestic insights with bipartisan humanity -

Could not be more apt for today's political climate -

Super fun, super timely… you will tear through it -

This whip-smart family drama is utterly addictive -

Witty…fast-moving…lively -

Funny, charming… infused with warmth, depth and engrossing storylines… sparkling -

I tore through this timely novel of family, marriage, love and politics. By turns insightful, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, How to Sleep at Night is a delight -

This wonderful debut is about the rough and tumble road that true love represents for all of us -

Concise, engaging… couldn’t be timelier -

Deliciously messy and compulsively moreish -

Staggeringly good… clever, gossipy, sharp and insightful - like hanging out at the best party in town -

A sharp exploration of ambition and the delicate balance between political divides -

A sharp, witty exploration of relationships and ambition, and the delicate balance between political divides -

Engaging -

A satisfying story of middle-aged reckonings -

Exploring themes of ambition, loyalty, and how people evolve over time, this sly novel fits right in among other fiction which explores the personal side of politics -

A lively, of-the-moment political and domestic drama -

Harris excels at depicting middle-aged people reckoning with their earlier choices and struggling with how they want to live the rest of their lives -