Sleep
by C.L. Taylor
Narrated by Clare Corbett
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
You'll feel the sleep deprivation radiating off this one — staying up to finish a book about insomnia is darkly appropriate.
- Great if you want: isolated setting, layered guilt, and a slow-reveal whodunit
- Listening experience: slow-burn setup that tightens into a claustrophobic locked-room thriller
- Narration: Corbett captures Anna's fragile, sleep-deprived unease convincingly
- Skip if: you need a twisty, satisfying reveal — the payoff divides readers
About This Audiobook
Sleep follows Anna, a woman whose crushing insomnia and nightmares about a terrible past event drive her to accept a position at a remote hotel on the Scottish island of Rum. Seven guests arrive — each with secrets — and among them is someone who has come specifically for Anna, carrying knowledge that will put her survival at risk. C.L. Taylor constructs the thriller around the claustrophobic atmosphere of an island cut off from help and a protagonist whose compromised mental state makes her both sympathetic and unreliable.
Clare Corbett narrates with the quiet, gathering dread the material demands. Her voice for Anna carries the exhausted fragility of a woman who hasn't slept properly in years — physically present but emotionally running on reserves. At nine hours the audiobook builds its isolation and revelation effectively, and Corbett's performance sustains the tension through the final confrontation.
