Avant d'aller dormir

S. J. Watson

  • First published 2011
  • 487 pages
  • French
Every day, Christine Lucas wakes up next to a stranger. She looks in the mirror and sees the face of a middle-aged woman she does not recognize. The man patiently explains that he is Ben, her husband, that she is forty-seven years old, and that an accident years ago erased her ability to form new memories. Every morning is a blank slate, her entire adult life a mystery that must be retold. At the encouragement of a doctor who contacts her in secret, Christine begins to keep a journal, a single place to record her days and perhaps piece together the woman she once was.

As she reads her own handwriting, inconsistencies in her husband's stories begin to surface, and flashes of a terrifying past emerge. The more she uncovers, the more she questions everything and everyone around her, including the man she is supposed to trust with her life. Christine is trapped in a terrifying existence where the truth is fragile and her own mind is the greatest unknown. She must decide who is telling the truth before she goes to sleep, because when she wakes up, it will all be gone again.
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France loisirs, 2011
ISBN
9782298049800
Language
French
Original edition Originally published in 2011 · Lithuanian · Jotema

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