‘Narcolepsy isn’t funny’ – living with a sleep disorder

The journalist and author Henry Nicholls has been struggling with several sleep disorders for decades, but for many it’s just a jokeFor a serious examination of the devastating and incurable disability that is narcolepsy, Henry Nicholls’s book, Sleepy Head, is a surprisingly funny account.There is the obvious, if somewhat cruel, humour to be found in stories of people falling asleep in surprising places: in a small boat sailing around the Farne Islands, with the freezing North Sea ca