The Telegraph: SJ Watson: how I became a bestselling novelist in my forties

Author of bestselling novel Before I Go to Sleep – resigned from his job in the NHS just before his fortieth birthday to pursue his writing dream.

Writer SJ Watson’s debut novel Before I Go To Sleep became an international best seller after publication in 2011, and was turned into a film starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth. A physics graduate, he became an audiologist for the NHS and wrote during shifts. “I’m not a punch-the-air guy. But when I sat in the cinema watching the film made of my novel, all my emotions hit at once.”

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