Dream State

Name: Dream State
Brand: Hodder & Stoughton
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'The Paper Palace meets Jonathan Franzen' Sunday Times Style

By: Eric Puchner

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Paperback | 19 May 2026 | Edition Number 1

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An Oprah's Book Club Pick and an instant New York Times bestseller

A Book of the Year for The Times, Guardian and BBC Culture in 2025

'[A] brilliantly panoramic tale of family ties' Guardian

'Moving, funny and utterly engrossing' The Times
'A totally involving and moving literary page-turner' Clare Chambers

'I did not stop reading Dream State for three days straight' Jessie Burton

'I loved it. I read it so so fast and I think if you like, for example, Jonathan Franzen or books where people love, love, love a place so much, you too may find yourself longing to jump in a lake' Ella Risbridger

Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her in-laws' beautiful lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a cardiac anaesthesiologist with a brilliant life ahead of him.

When Charlie asks Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate the ceremony, Cece can't imagine anyone less appropriate; but as she spends time with him and his gruff mask slips, she grows increasingly uncertain about her future. Spanning fifty years after that fateful summer, Dream State is a profoundly moving saga of friendship, marriage and the ways we make meaning out of loss.

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A family history that feels monumental . . . The book's effect is hypnotically telescopic, a vision of people we come to know across decades . . . We book reviewers don't get to say much about endings, but Puchner's final chapter is one of the most touching and satisfying I've read in years. I see you teetering there between choosing to read Dream State or not. Jump in - Washington Post

I like it when a novel surprises me. So often, it's easy to slot literary narratives into a short list of categories: will-they-won't-they romance, journey to self-knowledge, sad girl millennial lit. By page 50, I can generally tell my thinly disguised autobiographies from my cosy crimes. But Dream State went somewhere I wasn't expecting . . . On the sentence level, Puchner's writing is almost flawless - I can't think of another book I have annotated so heavily, underlining phrases on almost every page... moving, funny and utterly engrossing. - The Times

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