Before i go to sleep is the first novel by s j watson published in spring 2011 it became both a sunday times and the new york times bestseller and has been translated into over 40 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 a british author since j k rowling. Before i go to sleep is the first novel by s j watson published in spring 2011 the novel is a psychological thriller about a woman suffering from anterograde amnesia she wakes up 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. Before i go to sleep follows a woman named christine who wakes up every morning without that majority of her adult memories she doesnt remember that shes married and every morning when she wakes up her husband has to explain who he is and why she cant remember him. Before i go to sleep is about a woman christine who loses her memory each time she goes to sleep she believes she is around 20 years old and when she repeatedly wakes up next to a strange man who turns out to be her husband she has to learn who she is and what she has done with her life all over again before her memory is wiped clean when she goes to bed that evening. Before i go to sleep is the debut novel of english writer sj watson in this novel christine lucas wakes every morning thinking she is a carefree twenty something woman with a bright future ahead of her in reality christine is a forty seven year old woman who suffered a terrible attack