Writing as a woman...

Background to the writing of Before I Go to Sleep, plus some news

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What I’ve been thinking about…

I’m often being asked why I chose to write Before I Go to Sleep from a woman’s perspective. The truthful answer is that in some ways I didn’t. It just happened. 

It was early 2009, and I was scouting around, looking for ideas for a novel I could be working on during my time on the Faber Academy course that I was about to start. I read about an amnesia sufferer – Henry Molaison—who had recently died and, from nowhere, saw the mental image of a woman, looking in a mirror. I knew, pretty much straight away, that it was her story I wanted to write, and in her voice.