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Sleep with Me: a sexually charged thriller that still keeps its clothes on When Joanna Briscoe’s controversial novel, Sleep with Me, was published in 2. Among its fans was the celebrated scriptwriter Andrew Davies, who approached Briscoe about turning it into a television drama. I hadn’t written the book with the hope of anyone adapting it, let alone someone of Andrew’s standing,” Briscoe recalls. But the moment he got in touch I thought, ‘Oh yes. That’s a perfect fit.’” Sleep with Me is Bricoe’s most successful book: it has been published in 1. Telegraph’s reviewer) dissection of a certain section of middle- class society: urban, young, slightly spoilt media types.
The novel created controversy because of its unflinching portrayal of sexuality in all its guises – gay and heterosexual. This is where Briscoe shares common ground with Davies. Watch Timber The Treasure Dog IMDB. Davies famously adapted Sarah Waters’s Sapphic novel, Tipping the Velvet, and is famous for having “sexed up” the writing of literary greats such as Austen, Dickens and EM Forster. Sleep with Me, which airs tomorrow night on ITV1, tells the story of Richard and Lelia, a seemingly happy, successful couple whose relationship is rocked by their meeting a mysterious French woman called Sylvie.
