Book info

• Title What Alice Forgot
• Author Liane Moriarty
• Year 2010
• Genre Contemporary

How can ten years of your life just disappear? Alice is twenty-nine. She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house. She's newly engaged to the wonderful Nick, and is pregnant with her first baby. But there's just one problem. That was ten years ago... Alice slipped in her step-aerobics class, hit her head and lost a decade. Now she's a grown-up, bossy mother of three in the middle of a nasty divorce and her beloved sister Elisabeth isn't speaking to her. This is her life, but not as she knows it. Just how many mistakes can you make in a decade? Can she ever get back to the woman she used to be?

Thoughts

The premise of this book is completely intriguing and captivating, and when you layer on Liane Moriarty’s incredible talent of writing right to the heart of characters, and giving details that make you entirely believe them as human beings, you’re in for a treat. I couldn’t imagine how to deal with a situation like this, so it was fascinating to read through how it all panned out. My only complaint was the ending, it all wound up a bit fast, whereas it might have been nice to spend a bit more time after the memory came back as well. But overall I loved it.

Rating: 5 / 5