Before I Go To Sleep By S. J. Watson.....A Review

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I finished this book yesterday and I gave it a 5 star rating on Goodreads.com. I loved this book. I recommend it to anyone who likes psychological suspense/thrillers. Before I Go To Sleep is a book that will keep you turning the pages trying to figure out what is going to happen next. This book is about a woman who has amnesia resulting from a traumatic experience. She cannot convert new memories from her short term memory to long term memory. Each day she wakes up and doesn't know where she is or how she got there. Sometimes, she wakes up thinking she is in her twenties while other times she thinks she is still a child. Shortly after waking each day, she learns that she is married and her husband has pasted photographs of him and her together over the years. He has created a scrapbook for her to look at which helps to give her some semblance of who she is. After her husband goes to work, she receives a call from a doctor who claims they have been working together trying to improve her memory. She keeps this secret from her husband. This doctor has her start writing everything down in a journal that she will hide somewhere and the doctor will tell her to find it the next day when he calls again. Soon she begins to make progress and she is finding out more about her life. Memories are coming back to her and she writes them down in her journal. She finds that she had a child, but she also learns that he died in Afghanistan. An old friend comes back into her life and things start to change. She is learning more of the truth about her past and she is finding that her husband is lying to her. Are her memories real or is what her husband tells her real? Is the doctor involved with feeding her these lies along with her husband? Is she going crazy? Is it just paranoia? This book was made into a movie in 2014 starring Nicole Kidman. I am curious to see it now and see if it is as good as the book. Picture from Goodreads.com