Before I Go To Sleep
A Novel

NewYork Times Bestseller“Anexceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished thelast page.”  –Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestsellingauthor of Shutter Island“Imaginedrifting off every night knowing that your memories will be wiped away bymorning. That’s the fate of Christine Lucas, whose bewildering internal worldis rendered with chilling intimacy in this debut literary thriller. . . .You’ll stay up late reading until you know.”  — People (4 stars)Memoriesdefine 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. Andthe one person you trust may be telling you only half the story. Welcome toChristine's life. Every morning, she awakens beside a stranger in an unfamiliarbed. She sees a middle-aged face in the bathroom mirror that she does notrecognize. And every morning, the man patiently explains that he is Ben, herhusband, that she is forty-seven-years-old, and that an accident long agodamaged her ability to remember.Inplace of memories Christine has a handful of pictures, a whiteboard in thekitchen, and a journal, hidden in a closet. She knows about the journal becauseDr. Ed Nash, a neurologist who claims to be treating her without Ben’sknowledge, reminds her about it each day. Inside its pages, the damaged womanhas begun meticulously recording her daily events—sessions with Dr. Nash,snippets of information that Ben shares, flashes of her former self thatbriefly, miraculously appear.But as the pages accumulate, inconsistencies begin toemerge, raising disturbing questions that Christine is determined to findanswers to. And the more she pieces together the shards of her broken life, thecloser she gets to the truth . . . and the more terrifying and deadly it is.