Midnight Sun is an unreleased companion
novel to the book
Twilight by author
Stephenie Meyer. The work retells the events of
Twilight, but is written from the perspective of
Edward Cullen instead of that of the series' usual narrating character
Bella Swan. Meyer stated that
Twilight was to be the only book from the series that she planned to rewrite from Edward's perspective. To give them a better feel of Edward's character, Meyer allowed
Catherine Hardwicke, the director of the film adaptation of
Twilight, and
Robert Pattinson, the actor playing Edward, to read some completed chapters of the novel while they shot the film.