Asleep Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Older Children (2007) Smith was actually a moralist

Smith was actually a moralist of liberty

and penniless painters and writers of underground Paris

and consistency of change

she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers

an embattled Javanese peasant and his impoverished family

Asleep Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Older Children (2007) Smith was actually a moralistYoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle.