Author: Liane Moriarty
Length: 546 pages
What Alice Forgot
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Description
“What would happen if you were visited by your younger self, and got a chance for a do-over? Alice Love is twenty-nine years old, madly in love with her husband, and pregnant with their first child. So imagine her surprise when, after a fall, she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym she HATES the gym) and discovers that she’s actually thirty-nine, has three children, and is in the midst of an acrimonious divorce.A knock on the head has misplaced ten years of her life, and Alice isn’t sure she likes who she’s become. It turns out, though, that forgetting might be the most memorable thing that has ever happened to Alice.”
Janet Dore –
When I closed the back cover of this book, I marveled at how it’s not until the very end of a book that I really know what rating I’ll bestow upon it. I can be absolutely loving a book up until the end…and then it can suddenly drop to a 4-star within the last few pages. Or, conversely, a book can be holding at a solid 4 when the ending bumps it up to my all time favorites list.
It was the latter with What Alice Forgot. Without spoiling anything, I’ll just say that I loved how Liane chose to end this story.
I picked up this book after enjoying the Big Little Lies series on Netflix with my guy (NOTE: I would have totally postponed watching it had I known it was based on a book!!! 🤦♀️). Liane definitely has a formula that works—she utilizes humor and mystery to turn stories about serious issues into pretty light reads. In the case of What Alice Forgot, amnesia, death, divorce, infertility, aging, and parenting, are written about in such a way that reading about them is not depressing. Instead, I found myself relating and chuckling throughout the entire book.
I just added her other books to my imposing TBR list and took The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald off my bookshelf to start in 10, 9, 8…
Monica (verified owner) –
I found What Alice Forgot to be a humorous and enjoyable book. Alice is the main character but cleverly Moriarty gives us a fuller story through her sister’s letters to her psychologist and her Grandmother’s writings. It’s about family, misunderstanding, forgiveness, second chances and mostly love. It was over 450 pages but it felt like a shorty 200 pager.