Counting Sheep: The science and pleasures of sleep and dreams by Paul Martin, HarperCollins, £14.99, ISBN 0002570661 Reviewed by Jim Horne
ONE advantage of someone writing about a research field that is not their own is that they may be able to see issues and controversies more objectively. Equally, however, they may not have the advantage of depth of knowledge and insight.
Paul Martin’s wide-ranging and informed review of the science of sleep, interspersed with literary examples and notable quotes from the famous, bounces along like the proverbial sheep. Its numerous short sections are pithy, but tend to be too short to develop into robust themes,…
