Acquired for film by
Ridley Scott's production company, Scott Free, with
Rowan Joffe (
28 Weeks Later / The American) to write screen-play and direct.
Sold to thirty territories, including a high six-figure deal in America, this novel was the subject of a hotly contested auction around the world.The author is one of the first graduates of the
Faber Academy Creative Writing Course, set up in 2008.
S J Watson was born in the Midlands and lives in London.
Before I Go To Sleep has become a phenomenal international success, it has now sold over 4 million copies in over 40 languages around the world. It is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and won both the Crime Writers' Association Award for Best Debut Novel and the Galaxy National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year.
His new novel, Second Life, will be published in February 2015.
'As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me ...'
Memories define us.
So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?
Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight.
And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story.
Welcome to Christine's life.
Now a major film starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong. In Cinemas' now.
Quite simply the best debut novel I've ever read.Brilliant in its pacing, profound in its central question, suspenseful on every page - and satisfying in its thriller ending.A deft, perceptive exploration of a fascinating neurological condition, and a cracking good thriller.A terrific first novel - well-written, genuinely unsettling and psychologically very plausible. Thrillers seldom come much better than this. Loved it, read it in oneAn exceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished the last page
