Brexit might sell a few books

News today of a new syndrome: 

possible chronic Post Brexit Insomnia (PBI)

Over a period of months, her sleep disturbances fluctuated. In June 2016 they began to be accompanied by anger at the result of the European referendum, resulting in periods of restless wakefulness

If only we had known it would make novelists angry, I am sure we would never have voted Leave. It might be other things affecting her too.The rest of the lengthy column goes on and on:

On arriving home, she [she writes of herself in the third person] recalls meeting her next-door neighbour at the bus stop, who told her of the death of their lodger. Later that day she was informed of the separation of her sister and partner. Some days after this, she learned of the death of her cousin, who was found in his flat two days after he passed away. Some days later she was informed that her father’s partner had been diagnosed with dementia. A week or two after her cousin’s funeral, she learned that her father had fallen from a ladder, had badly broken his leg and would be unable to walk for a year.

She is a novelist, strangely enough with a book about insomnia:

Dust and ashes though I am, I sleep the sleep of angels....This is the first line of my most recently published novel.... She knew the word ragged and she knew it was an adjective that could describe many things, including sleep, but she knew nothing about ragged sleep. Nowadays she is shocked by the fraudulence of words. Every word claims an authority and every word craves to be believed, and we read others’ words and we find something to relate to, solace in a shared experience. Yet there doesn’t have to be any experience behind a word. A word can be a shadow not cast by any object

I think the link with Brexit was thought up by the PR people at her publishers. It could spark a whole series of commercially-inspired stories -- My Hamster Miscarried Because of Brexit