Author | S. J. Watson |
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Cover artist | Veronique Beranger / Getty Images |
Language | English |
Genre | Thriller, Suspense |
Publisher | Doubleday (United Kingdom) HarperCollins (United States) |
Publication date | April 2011 (United Kingdom) June 2011 (United States) |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print, audiobook, ebook |
Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 0-85752-017-2 |
Followed by | Second Life |
Before I Go to Sleep is the first novel by S. J. Watson, published in the spring of 2011. It became both a Sunday Times and The New York Times bestseller[1] and has been translated into over 40 languages,[2] and has become a bestseller in France, Canada, Bulgaria and the Netherlands.[3] It reached number 7 on the US bestseller list, the highest position for a debut novel by a British author since J. K. Rowling. The New York Times described the author as an "out-of-nowhere literary sensation".[4] He wrote the novel between shifts whilst working as a National Health Service (NHS) audiologist.[5]
It [Before I Go to Sleep] has been translated into 40 languages and racked up blockbuster numbers in France, Canada, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, and the United States. (And this was writer S.J. Watson's debut novel.)