Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel

New

York Times Bestseller

“An

exceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished the

last page.” –Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling

author of Shutter Island

“Imagine

drifting off every night knowing that your memories will be wiped away by

morning. That’s the fate of Christine Lucas, whose bewildering internal world

is rendered with chilling intimacy in this debut literary thriller. . . .

You’ll stay up late reading until you know.” — People (4 stars)

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 be telling you only half the story. Welcome to

Christine's life. Every morning, she awakens beside a stranger in an unfamiliar

bed. She sees a middle-aged face in the bathroom mirror that she does not

recognize. And every morning, the man patiently explains that he is Ben, her

husband, that she is forty-seven-years-old, and that an accident long ago

damaged her ability to remember.

In

place of memories Christine has a handful of pictures, a whiteboard in the

kitchen, and a journal, hidden in a closet. She knows about the journal because

Dr. Ed Nash, a neurologist who claims to be treating her without Ben’s

knowledge, reminds her about it each day. Inside its pages, the damaged woman

has begun meticulously recording her daily events—sessions with Dr. Nash,

snippets of information that Ben shares, flashes of her former self that

briefly, miraculously appear.

But as the pages accumulate, inconsistencies begin to

emerge, raising disturbing questions that Christine is determined to find

answers to. And the more she pieces together the shards of her broken life, the

closer she gets to the truth . . . and the more terrifying and deadly it is.

© 2011 Harper (Lydbog): 9780062072597

Udgivelsesdato

Lydbog: 14. juni 2011