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
… More »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, this 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?
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Add a CommentYou'll figure out what is going on before the big reveal but still a scary story that illustrates just how much we depend on others in terms of what we believe to be true & how we see our world.
Good read if you want to get a feeling of memory loss, although was wildly repetative and I ended up skippiong huge chuncks of text just to get through it (and didnt even end up missing any details) Ending is a great twist to the story but you can see it coming half way through the book and is somewhat unrealiztic to real life possiblities.
I enjoyed the book. Read it very fast - 14 days loan - but also because i was anxious to know the end.
Christine wakes up in an unfamiliar bedroom next to a man she thinks is an aging one-night stand. She wakes up believing she’s in her twenties but she’s wrong. The man she wakes up next to informs her he is her husband Ben and that she is suffering from a rare form of amnesia resulting from a serious car accident 20 years earlier. Although she can remember everything that happens to her throughout the day as well as any memory of her past that comes to her that day, as soon as she goes to sleep at night her mind is wiped clean. As Christine begins a desperate attempt to reconstruct her life, she finds that she has been consulting a doctor, apparently without Ben’s knowledge. And she is keeping a journal, which she reads each day to remind her of what she has discovered about her past. When inconsistencies begin to appear between the memories she’s written in her journal and the memories supplied to her by her husband, Christine doesn’t know which way to turn. Is Dr. Nash really trying to help her or is his sabotaging her life? What about her husband Ben? Why does it seem he’s keeping things from her? And… what is she supposed to think about the memories she’s beginning to have about a man that she is positive she was having an affair with just before her accident? This is a real page-turner with some good twists and turns along the way. Reviewed by TC
there was a alot of repitition in this book, but the plot was suspenseful enough to keep reading 'till the end. I enjoyed it!
It was OK. I stuck with it until the end. It was slow going and repetative at times with a "big twist" near the end, but still interesting enough to want to see how it turns out.
An entertaining read, although slow going. It takes awhile to build the story so that you want to keep going. The suspense/thriller part doesn't come until half way into the book.
A compelling story. A woman - who was involved in an accident - wakes up each day with no memory of anything, not even who she is. She remembers stuff throughout the day but it is all lost when she goes to bed. She begins to suspect that her husband is not telling her the truth about her life and starts to keep a journal during the daytime so she can refer to it each new day and thereby have a kind of memory of what she did the previous day. The plot thickens when she starts to believe that all is not as it seems.
I enjoyed this book, but can't give it full stars because I agree with BookEnthusiast that it wore on my nerves a bit ... in my case, because there were some "logic gaps" that just bugged me and I couldn't make myself forget about them. For example, critical information is coming to her each day by cell phone, yet some days she can't remember past her childhood, so presumably she wouldn't even know HOW to charge a cell phone ... and if she had known to charge the cell phone her doctor gave her, then "Ben" would have seen it and the gig would have been up. My "willing suspension of disbelief" got stretched passed its stretching point so I can't echo the raves from reviewers on the book jacket. Still, it was a sufficiently good read to keep me going till the end.
Loved this book. Well written and interesting, gripping story.