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Before I Go To Sleep
Published 14 December 2011
ISBN 9781921758980
Format Paperback
Extent 368pp
AU Price $19.95
NZ Price $26.00

Before I Go To Sleep

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Christine wakes in a strange bed beside a man she does not recognise. In the bathroom she finds a photograph of him taped to the mirror, and beneath it the words 'Your husband'.
Each day, Christine wakes knowing nothing of her life. Each night, her mind erases the day. But before she goes to sleep, she will recover fragments from her past, flashbacks to the accident that damaged her, and then—mercifully—she will forget.
Chilling, exquisitely crafted and compulsively readable, S. J. Watson's debut novel Before I Go to Sleep is a psychological thriller of the highest order. It asks primary questions. Are there things best not remembered? Who are we if we do not know our own history? How do we love without memory?
 
Published 14 December 2011
ISBN 9781921758980
Format Paperback
Extent 368pp
AU Price $19.95
NZ Price $26.00

About the author

S. J. Watson

S. J. Watson’s first novel, Before I Go to Sleep (2011), has sold more than six million copies worldwide. It won the Crime Writers’ Association Award for Best Debut Novel and the Galaxy National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year. The film of the book, starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong, was released in 2014. S. J. Watson’s second novel, Second Life, a psychological thriller, was published to acclaim in 2015. S. J. Watson was born in the Midlands and now lives in London.
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Praise for Before I Go To Sleep

'A deft, perceptive exploration of a fascinating neurological condition, and a cracking good thriller.' Lionel Shriver

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'Quite simply the best debut I've ever read.' Tess Gerritsen

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'An exceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished the last page.' Denis Lehane

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'Brilliant in its pacing, profound in its central question, suspenseful on every page and satisfying in its thriller ending.' Anita Shreve

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'A deeply unsettling debut that asks the most terrifying question – what do you have left when you lose yourself?' Val McDermid

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'Before I Go to Sleep is, quite simply, one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking stories to be published in a very long time. A masterpiece of a novel, it is impossible to put down.' ABC Radio

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'This is an absolutely searing debut. I guarantee it will keep the reader from sleeping - initially because of its compulsively readable narrative and then because of the haunting implications of its final pages...Before I Go to Sleep is a sure bestseller and worthy of all the accolades flowing in its direction.' Sunday Tasmanian

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'It's an ambitious premise that requires a finely calibrated plotline, and Watson executes it brilliantly in an act of sustained control…a finely crafted and satisfying psychological thriller... The best thriller I've read all year.' Sunday Telegraph

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'Like Christopher Nolan's film 'Memento', Before I Go to Sleep is a psychological thriller of intricacy and mind-bending qualities.' Herald Sun

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'This cracking debut novel takes the theme of memory loss and weaves it into a thriller so tight and tense it's almost impossible to put down.' Australian Women's Weekly

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'An excellent psychological thriller.' Otago Daily Times

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'A top-class psychological thriller.' Listener

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'It's hard to think of a recent debut novel as original and ambitious in its premise - or as successful in its execution...a complex, well-thought-out, literary psychological thriller.' NZ Herald on Sunday

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