A woman who has lost her memory, a diary which helps her to get acquainted with her past and a doctor trying to help her out. Well we have read all this in S J Watson’s bestseller Before I go to sleep. Ganga Bharani the author of Just You, Me and Secret had accused Nikita Singh of plagiarism. While making allegation she was cautious and said that the treatment and not the story that was similar. I regret that I had supported her facebook campaign.
I recently read Just You, Me and Secret. Its not that it is a bad book. But it too similar to Before I go to Sleep to call it a coincidence. So I am disheartened. Before posting this review I contacted Ganga Bharani. Like Nikita Singh, she too vouched for the originality of her book. But she admitted the similarities with the best seller which was published earlier to her book. Well that says it all.
At one place the mother of the protagonist says that she will make tea for her daughter and in the very next line she offers her her favourite coffee. Plastic surgery may change the face, but which surgeon can modify the voice of a person to make it sound like another person. Don’t you identify your loved ones through their voices? I wish these mistakes were avoided.
I regret supporting Ganga Bharani’s anti-plagiarism campaign. It appears to have been more of a publicity stunt.