<p>** AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK IN DECEMBER 2022 **<br>'Curious, lively, humble, utterly genuine ... a remarkable debut.' SUNDAY TIMES<br>Alice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in her bedroom.<br><br>Ever since she was a child, her nights have been haunted by nightmares of a figure from her adolescence, sinister hallucinations and episodes of sleepwalking. These are known as 'parasomnias' - and they'r...