Tell Me Your Dreams

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author = Sidney Sheldon
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Thriller novel
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release_date = 1998
english_release_date = 1998
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isbn = 0-446-60720-7
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"Tell Me Your Dreams" is a 1998 novel by the American writer Sidney Sheldon.

Plot summary

The central character of the book is Ashley Patterson, an introverted workaholic, and her co-workers, Toni Prescott, an outgoing singer and dancer, and shy artist Alette Peters.

The three women do not get along well because of their dissimilar natures. Toni and Alette generally maintain a friendship, with Alette a calming influence, but Toni dislikes Ashley and criticizes her harshly. All three women have issues with their mothers having told them they'd never amount to anything.

Ashley fears that somebody is following her. She's found her house lights turned on when she comes home from work, her personal effects in disarray, and someone has written "You will die" on her mirror with a lipstick. She thinks someone's broken into her house. She requests a police escort, but the next morning, the police officer assigned to this duty is found dead in her apartment. Two other murders have already taken place, with an identical pattern.All the murdered men had been castrated and were having sex before being murdered.Evidence points to the same woman being involved in all three cases. When a gift from one of the murdered men to Toni is found in Ashley's things, she is identified as the killer and arrested. At this point, it is revealed that the three women are three selves in a multiple personality group.

Ashley's father persuades an attorney friend to represent Ashley. The second half of the novel deals with the trial, complete with endless squabbling between opposing psychiatrists as to whether or not MPD is real. Ashley is committed to an insane asylum and in the course of therapy is introduced to her two "alters" and relives the horrific events that shattered her mind.She was sexually abused by her father during childhood and this made her to develop a strong hatred towards men.

True to Syndney Sheldon's mysterious style , the story has a shocking ending.

TRIVIAThe Tamil film Anniyan had almost the same plot with a similar ending.Suitable changes were made to the story to suit the Tamil audience.

This novel is suppoesed to be based on a true story.