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A woman wakes every morning with no memory of her life
2011Fast paceTense
What it is about
Christine Lucas wakes up each day with no memory of who she is. The man next to her says he is her husband, and a doctor she does not know calls to tell her to look in her journal. As she reads what she has written, she begins to doubt what she is being told.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who like psychological thrillers with a twist.
What you will get
A quick, gripping debut. It was adapted into a 2014 film.
Before I Go to Sleep Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Mystery & Thriller · Memory loss · Journal · Unreliable narrator
Length
368 pages · ≈ 11 h
More about this book
Characters
Christine Lucas, her husband Ben and a doctor named Nash.
Setting
A house and some places in suburban London.
What makes it different
The heroine has to rediscover her life every single day.
Feel
Tense, suspicious and paranoid.
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