User:GrahamHardy/Before I Go to Sleep/Before I Go to Sleep

Before I Go to Sleep is the first novel by S. J. Watson published in Spring 2011. It became both the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has been translated into over 30 languages, and has become a bestseller in France, Canada, Bulgaria and the Netherlands. It reached number 7 on the US bestseller list, the highest position for a debut novel by British author since J. K. Rowling. The New York Times described the author as an "out-of-nowhere literary sensation".

Plot
It is a psychological thriller about, a woman suffering from amnesia. She wakes every day with no knowledge of who she is and the novel follows her as she tries to reconstruct her memories from a journal she has been keeping. She learns that she has been seeing a doctor who is helping her to recover her memory, that her name is Christine Lucas, that she is 47 years old and married and has a son. As her journal grows it casts doubts on the truth behind this knowledge and sets her on a terrifying journey of discovery.

Awards

 * Winner of the 2011 CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
 * Winner of the Galaxy National UK Thriller & Crime Novel of the Year, 2011

Film adaptation
Ridley Scott has bought the film rights and has hired Rowan Joffe to direct.