Author
Claire Ashworth
Quiet books for the hour before dawn
Wide Awake at 2 a.m.
Anchorline Press
First book
It is 2:17 in the morning. You are awake. Again.
You fell asleep just fine. That was hours ago. Now you are staring at the ceiling, doing the math on how many hours you can still get if you fall back asleep right now, thinking about the email you forgot to answer and the permission slip you forgot to sign and the appointment you keep meaning to make.
You are not depressed. Your life is good. You know it. That is part of what makes this so confusing.
You have tried the melatonin. You have tried the app with the rain sounds. You have tried going to bed earlier and the glass of wine you already know does not help. None of it has worked, because none of it was aimed at the problem you actually have.
This is a short, specific book about why busy women in their late thirties and forties cannot stay asleep — and what actually works.
You will read it in three nights. You will start sleeping through them not long after.
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About Claire
Claire Ashworth writes for the women who lie awake at two in the morning. Her work began as a notebook beside her own bed — a place to put the thoughts that wouldn’t quiet down. She believes most of what keeps us up isn’t a problem to be solved but a feeling that needs a friend to sit with it. Wide Awake at 2 a.m. is her first book.
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