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170417: forgot to add review: blurb calls him 'Britain's answer to Stephen King'. perhaps so. there are some great images, some effective weirdness, multiple viewpoints. it is probably of its place and time, such is ordinary life disrupted by horror. the characters are real, identifiable, concerns and lives modern, convincing, simple. from the single mother struggling with the visiting other daughter, the woman journalist who is the one who acts...

it is a. long. book. but easily read in two big gulps. the idea of dreams investigation and five special dreamers is good, somehow familiar: is there a subgenre of dangerous medical experiments summoning horror? takes a while to read horror. that events could be seen as shit rather than evil... i do like the metaphysics, the force of dreams lying in wait behind commonly agreed waking life, but would rather have more on that than ultimate explanations. good if not great...