Before bed

The book that inspired the film starring Nicole Kidman. Christine wakes up in a strange bed, next to a man with a ring on his finger. Her first reaction is to think she had an affair with a married man the night before. As she struggles to remember what happened, thinking of a likely cheated-on wife, she finally looks in the mirror. And doesn't recognize her reflection. At least twenty years older than she expected. Then the man reveals something disturbing to her: every day, her memory fades whenever she falls asleep. The stranger, her husband Ben, is forced to recount their life story each morning. Encouraged by her doctor, she begins keeping a journal to help her recover her memories. One morning, she opens it and finds four frightening words: "Don't trust Ben." And she begins to wonder... What accident caused her to become this way? Who can she trust? Maintaining a suspenseful pace from beginning to end, Before I Go to Sleep is a clever and thought-provoking novel about memory and identity. And about how much we can trust those closest to us.