“The story I am about to tell is Martin’s, and my function in his life should remain peripheral, as what I shall narrate would have happened regardless of any intervention I may have made during our short reunion.

So begins Brian Howell’s The Study of Sleep, a mind-bending journey into the life of a man obsessed with love but controlled by sex, unable to rest but compulsively driven to lose himself in a world that may or may not be of his own creation. Howell’s trademark style perfectly suits this masterful, nuanced exploration of conspirators in a journey towards madness.