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Book as well as wrapper in great condution - 1968 - >>> Written in the wake of the notorious Moors murders, The Sleep of Reason depicts an ageing generation struggling to understand the new, more permissive society. >>> The novel was first published in 1968 and is set in 1963, when I entered my teenage years, and its dominant theme is that the proper order of things is about to be overwhelmed by the unreasonable freedom enjoyed by the generation born during the second world war. This is epitomised by its focus on the trial of two women in their late teens who inexplicably abduct and kill a young boy. The women are lesbians and one explanation offered for their crime (not by them) is guilt because of their deviant sexual behaviour. (It is relevant that the first Moors Murder was committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in July 1963.) (Robert Ronsson on Goodreads)
