Get Sleepy: Ocean Waves
Narrated by Thomas Jones
Get Sleepy: Ocean Waves is a set of nine original bedtime stories with the sea running underneath them, from the makers of the Get Sleepy podcast.
Every story is set by the water, and the waves are under every one of them, so the sea is there whether the story is on a beach or a boardwalk. A sketchbook turns out to have some magic in it. Someone goes picking through tidepools, and someone else takes a bike ride along the shore. There's a seaside picnic, and a painter at work on the northern English coast. A photographer covers the Algarve, a boardwalk ramble goes nowhere in particular, one lazy afternoon passes on a beach, and the last story drifts out to an island off Turkey.
These are Get Sleepy originals, written to settle a busy head, not to go anywhere. Nothing goes wrong in them. The point is the place, the water, and the small pleasant business of a day spent beside it. They suit a night when a full novel is too much to hold and silence is too little, and they work as well for getting back under after a wake-up as they do at lights-out. If you already sleep to ocean sounds, this adds a voice and a little scenery to the same rhythm, and if you prefer a story to plain noise, the waves keep it from ever feeling loud.
Thomas Jones reads no faster than the tide comes in. Pick a coast, set a timer, and let the water take the story off your hands.
