Product Description
Before I Go To Sleep
Author: S J Watson
Format: Paperback
Discover the haunting and deeply chilling debut thriller which has now sold more than six million copies worldwide.
Memories define us.
So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story.
Welcome to Christine's life.
Praise for Before I Go to Sleep:
'A cracking good thriller' — Lionel Shriver
'Thrillers seldom come much better than this. Loved it' — Joanne Harris
'So high-concept, so ambitious and so structurally brilliant' — Sophie Hannah
'A deeply unsettling debut that asks the most terrifying question - what do you have left when you lose yourself?' — Val McDermid
'I loved it from start to finish' — Mo Hayder
'Brilliant in its pacing, profound in its central question, suspenseful on every page' — Anita Shreve
'Quite simply the best debut novel I've ever read' — Tess Gerritsen
About the Author
S J Watson was born in the Midlands, lives in London and worked in the NHS for a number of years. In 2009 Watson was accepted into the first Faber Academy ‘Writing a Novel’ course, a programme that covers all aspects of the novel-writing process. Before I Go To Sleep is the result. Before I Go To Sleep has become a phenomenal international success, sold in 44 territories around the world. It is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and won both the Crime Writers’ Association Award for Best Debut Novel and the Galaxy National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year. Before I Go To Sleep is now a major movie starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong and directed by Rowan Joffe.
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