Dream Your Animal Dreams - Carole Martinez

Dream Your Animal Dreams - Carole Martinez

Carole Martinez

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Published 22 October 2026

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  • Pages · 336 pages
  • Publication Date · 22/10/2026
  • Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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A haunting, visionary novel that entwines the personal with the global in a tale of dreams, survival, and transformationEva, a neurologist specializing in sleep, retreats to the isolated marshlands of the Camargue with her eight-year-old daughter Lucie, to protect them both from a violent man and a world that appears to be unraveling.�At first their retreat appears idyllic. Then, one night, Lucie wakes in tears after a disturbing dream. At the same time, children all over the world cry out in their sleep-a phenomenon that quickly ripples into waking life, heralding inexplicable calamities, harbingers of ancient plagues. Between the whispering reeds and the ever-watchful horizon, Eva faces the narrow frontier between waking and dreaming.�Martinez blends myth and psychological insight to explore how collective dreams might be messages from a beleaguered planet. Structurally bold and emotionally potent, the novel addresses themes of motherhood, violence, ecological collapse, and the universal search for meaning in chaos.

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