Before I Go to Sleep drinks purer water from a deeper well. A first novel by an NHS audiologist who wrote it in between shifts at London's St Thomas's Hospital, it's exceptionally accomplished – like David Nicholls'sOne Day, a brilliant example of how an unpromisingly high-concept idea can be transformed by skilful execution. In some ways it's an inversion of Borges's story "Funes, the Memorious", about a Uruguayan man who, after an accident, is unable either to forget anything or classify his memories in a way that might stop them overwhelming him.
---SPSmith
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