Oliver Twist, The Quiet House
A ditch, a field, a door knocked on at dawn, and two women who decide to keep him.
Retold for sleep from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, first published in 1838 and long out of copyright. The story is Dickens's; every sentence here is our own.
Low, slow and spacious, a gentle cadence with long pauses, tuned for the dark and made to be drifted off to.
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About this session
Oliver Twist, The Quiet House is a sleep story from Salūs, a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace by Charles Holt.
Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.