''Sleep Has His House'' (first published as ''The House of Sleep'' in New York by Doubleday in 1947) is a novel by Anna Kavan. The novel is a dark coming of age narrative, which juxtaposes realistic semi-autobiographical accounting of life, with sections of subconscious wanderings. According to critic Kate Zambreno, the novel was neither a popular nor critical success, leading to the publisher

Jonathan Cape Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960. Cape and his business partner Wren Howard set up the publishing house in 1921. They established a reputation ...

dropping her as one of their authors. ''Kirkus Review'', when reviewing a 1980 reprint of the novel, called its style as having a "dreamlike quality--often beautiful but generally less effective han her earlier work.

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