Sleeping Children

'Magnificent' - Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Years
'Supremely skillful' - The Telegraph
'One of the best books I've read in a long time' - i-D

France, 1981. A small rural village is gripped by an epidemic of heroin usage. Désiré, once the pride of the family, has become one of its many 'sleeping children', found slumped, unconsciou