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Sleep Toward Heaven (Hardcover)

by Amanda Eyre Ward (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Hutchinson (4 Dec 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 009180003X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091800031
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,460,244 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Jennifer Weiner, the New York Times bestselling author of Good in Bed and In Her Shoes
It's funny and sad and redemptive. Read it now. Thank me later.

James Ellroy
Women's Death Row as you have never seen it; hauntingly rich, wise and sharply etched.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars You'll get no sleep, you have to keep reading!, 18 Nov 2004
By Philip Trenfield (Cardiff, U.K.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sleep Toward Heaven (Paperback)
This is a truly magical read. Three different womens lives cross over in one way or another. A doctor, a woman on death row and a woman who's husband has just been murdered.
If you are looking for a cheerful read this isn't the book for you. If you are however looking for a beautifully written masterpiece that you really can't put down then order this book today.
It's hard to beleive this is a first novel for this author, her writing is stunning.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars wonderful read, 27 May 2004
By J. Webber "josiew58" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sleep Toward Heaven (Paperback)
Three women, different lives, all destined to become one. A murderer, awaiting death row, the widow of one of the men she shot and a young doctor who, after realising she probably isnt content with her lot becomes involved with both these women. Written in chapters which look further ahead at each womans life in sequence I found my self A) wanting it to finish,I needed to know how it panned out B) not wanting it to finish, I found the book to be addictive, and C) logging on to see what else this auther has to offer, which unfortuanatly at the moment is nothing...............what an excellent way to start a writing career. MORE, soon please...............
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars LIVING ON DEATH ROW , 10 Aug 2006
By Heather Marshall Negahdar "SUGAR-CANE" (Bridgetown, Barbados) - See all my reviews
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"There is something catty about the women. I don't know. With the men it's very straightforward, but with the women there`s the............you might say the cunning."


The title of the book alone was what drew me to it "Sleep Towards Heaven".

It is a work well done for this first novelist Amanda Eyre Ward. Set in Gatestown, Texas, we are invited into the lives of four women on Death Row.
The story centres too around two totally different individuals whose lives will be affected by one of these women sentenced to death by lethal injection. We meet Celia a widow who has lost her husband to murder, and Franny a doctor and caregiver, who spends her time with the incarcerated, and of course Karen, who is at the core of the tale.

As these lives intertwine, we see harshness without forgiveness, severe love, stubbornness and also grace and love. It shows us what people would do for the sake of love; how far one would go to have one's love returned, or just to satisfy the one loved.
These women live their last days out watching TV, doing handicraft, praying and deciding what their last meals will be before their deaths, when they will be sentenced, and some of them become changed in spiritual ways, relying on God's forgiveness and going to a better place after death.
It is sad but it is well told and it is a good first effort.
Reviewed by Heather Marshall Negahdar (SUGAR-CANE 09/08/07



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