eiderdown

But let’s return for a moment to that charmingly appointed B&B. If I were its proprietor, I would provide a shelf of older ghost-story anthologies, so that those unable to sleep might shudder under an eiderdown with Vernon Lee’s “Amour Dure,” M.R.

And as she snuggled comfortably beneath the eiderdown a sense of restfulness invaded her, such as she had not known before.

Harvey’s memoir of her 2016 insomnia is “like a small and well-worn eiderdown quilt,” our reviewer, Alexandra Jacobs, wrote.

On social media we're confessing to curling up with the cat on the eiderdown, with laptop, phone and notebook to hand.

Samantha Harvey’s memoir of sleeplessness is more like a small and well-worn eiderdown quilt: It might not cover everything, but it both cools and warms, lofts and lulls, settling gradually on its inhabitant with an ethereal solidity.