What Alice Forgot

Different, but in a refreshing way. Totally relatable, made me examine my own life. I almost gave it 3 stars for how I thought it was ending, until the epilogue redeemed it. Took one star off for some annoying parts like Barb’s rambling, and Frannie’s irrelevant pov. But on the whole it was a good book.

This was such a good read! Be prepared to feel as confused as Alice was throughout the story since we the reader are learning things about her life in the same way she was learning things about her life.

I was skeptical at first, because it takes place in Australia, and some references are not what I’m used to, but it was really good! Great read!

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The name of the book I read is called What Alice Forgot. The author of this book is Liane Moriarty. The plot starts out with Alice in bed talking and going over all of the rules that she has to follow because she is pregnant. Then her head gets filled with many different memories and as soon as she wakes up she is in a gym. She finds out shortly after that she fell at the gym and hit her head. When the paramedics arrive to try and help Alice she tells them that she is 29, but one of her friends that is in the gym with her tells the paramedics that she is actually turning 40 soon. Alice tells them that it is the year 1998, when really it is 2008. This is when the readers realized that Alice has lost the memories of the past 10 years of her life. Throughout the book, Alice has to try and deal with everyday life that she would normally live, but now that she doesn’t have her memory from the past 10 years, everything is much harder.In my personal opinion, this book was very well written. It had a lot of suspense and mystery throughout its plot. The whole problem and conflict between Alice and Nick is one of the main things that kept the book interesting. As the book went on, more and more problems and situations kept coming up in Alice’s life, and reading about how she dealt with each one of these problems kept me really tied to the book and not wanting to stop reading. From the beginning of the book when Alice loses her memory, the author does a great job of keeping everything suspenseful.This story is about a woman named Alice Love who loses her memory of the past 10 years of her life. The book shows all of the hard obstacles that she has to go through with family and friends as she tries her best to discover the person was.. The main characters in this book are Alice, Elisabeth, and Nick. There are definitely some other important characters such as Alice’s children as well as Gina and Frannie, but they aren’t as important as the main characters. In the story the main characters all played major roles. Alice, being the protagonist, had the story focusing in on her and the problems she went through while losing her memory. Elisabeth is Alice’s sister who plays a big part in Alice’s life after Alice’s accident. Nick is Alice’s husband, and throughout the story they are going through a divorce because of a problem that Alice can’t seem to remember. My favorite character in the book has to either be Alice or Elisabeth. I like them both because they share a great sisterly connection. The author does a good job of showing the readers how before Alice’s accident their relationship was kind of drifting apart; and then after the accident, they find a way to come back together again. As the book went on, their relationship grew as they helped each other through different obstacles of their lives.I enjoyed reading this book. My favorite part was definitely the tension between Alice and Nick. Throughout the book, there was always conflict between the two of them. Either Alice wanted him back and Nick didn’t want anything to do with her, or Nick wanted her back and Alice couldn’t deal with him anymore. One issue I had with the novel was that Frannie’s journal entries were a little boring and sometimes confusing. If I could change something in the book, I would probably get rid of the journal entries that Elisabeth and Frannie write. Some of them were interesting, but I don’t think that they should have taken up a lot of the story.Someone who likes romance and mystery would really enjoy reading this book. It is a great read and it has a lot of thrills and suspense. It isn’t a very short book, but it is so well written that the book goes by very fast. Once you start reading it is very hard to stop and put the book down, I highly? recommend it

If you love Liane Moriarty you're gonna love this (and literally all her books)

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty is a novel that really makes you sit back and think and I love that in a book. Alice is at the gym doing her spinning workout when she faints and falls off her bike hitting her head. When she wakes up, it's too find that she's lost ten years of her life! In her mind, she is still 29 years old and pregnant with her first child, and yet she learns that she's actually about to celebrate her thirty-ninth birthday! Just what is going on - well Alice has no idea - yet! What will Alice think of her grown up self, how will she handle all the changes that have happened around her, and ultimately what will she learn from all of it?At the hospital Alice is in for yet more surprises. Her sister Elisabeth shows up at the hospital and Alice notices how old and tired she looks. She also realizes that their relationship doesn't seem to be quite what she knows it to be. Even worse Alice learns that she is, in fact, not pregnant, but already the mother of three children and to top it off, they are three children that Alice doesn't remember at all. She doesn't remember having them, them growing up; absolutely nothing and this terrifies her. However, the worst is still coming. As Alice is laying there wishing her husband Nick would come because he'd know what to do, she learns from her sister that they are getting divorced and that they are not exactly having a very pleasant divorce either. Alice is stunned! She loves Nick with all of her being. Who is this person she's become?At home Alice is thrown into caring for her children that she can't remember and being amazed at the wonderful changes her home in her home. She finds out that she has a boyfriend too which is just too much for her. She can't have a boyfriend when she loves her husband Nick so much but meeting Nick shows Alice just how many changes their relationship has gone through. As Alice navigates this new world of school events, mommy's groups, personal trainers, and even cell phones; she learns that she doesn't really like the person she has become. She seems to have become this busy, busy person with no time left for the things that really matter and goodness - why is there no chocolate in the house! As bits and pieces of Alice's memory begin to come back to her she has to make some decisions about her future and the person she wants to be in it.What Alice Forgot is so much more than a woman losing her memory. It's much deeper than that tackling issues of marriage, infertility, children, infidelity, love, and family. If you could go back ten years in your life and look ahead, would you be happy with the person you've become? Are you the person you would have wanted to be? I think as we're living our day-to-day lives we really don't think about all the changes that are occurring but if you really stop and look back you realize that you were very likely a much different person ten years ago than you are today. That's what this novel does for us - it lets us take a look back and evaluate who we are today and whether or not we're very happy with who we've become. Maybe it even gives us a chance to make some changes to our own lives to make it better.What Alice Forgot makes a terrific book club selection which is exactly why my book club chose to read it and we all loved it! It's a book that you'll not want to put down as you anxiously make it to that last page when the story is completely unfolded before you. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty definitely makes my favorites list this year and I would recommend it without hesitation!

I had heard quite a bit about this book before I finally read it and it had been on my Kindle for a while, so I had high expectations.The main character is Alice, a 39-year old mother of three in the middle of a divorce, as she wakes up on the floor of her gym having fainted and fallen off her spinning bike. We quickly gather that Alice believes that she is 29-years-old, happily married and pregnant with her first child. It appears that Alice has had a bump on the head and has lost the last ten years of her life.We then follow Alice as she struggles to understand what her life has become. Past relationships are gone or broken and she doesn’t recognise the person that everyone around her thinks that she is. Alice, her sister Elisabeth and Grandma Frannie are women all experiencing troubles, some more serious than others and it was interesting to get their take on things as they alternate chapters.The story is revealed to us at the same time as it’s revealed to Alice which is interesting. The book is told in third-person, which I wasn't expecting, but it works well so it wasn't a problem. It's all from Alice's point of view but as well as the usual narrative, there are also diary/journal type entries from Elisabeth which confused me at first but soon makes sense, as well as blog entries from Frannie.I enjoyed the book overall, although I think that Frannies diaries could have been left out and not be missed. The writing style took a bit of getting used to but was fine after a while. Some parts of the story were not quite believe but I did believe the characters and character interaction. Some of the scenes between Alice and her soon to be ex-husband were powerful, you could feel their connection and I felt for Alice as she understood what she had lost.

This finished far better than it started but even the first half wasn't bad as such, it simply dragged on a bit. But the dynamics between characters and how much of a difference ten years of missing memories can make to those dynamics was portrayed exceptionally well. The reactions of those around Alice and how they cope with her memory loss feel real, from the sister to the mother and the soon to be ex husband.I do think more could have been done with the children, particularly considering the signs of serious psychological distress shown by one of them. As it stands they were more like 2D cut outs of children without allowing the reader to become attached to them. This is a shame because there are some powerful moments that could really have defined the novel if done better.I also felt the whole Gina thing was overplayed; it was a life changing event but it's almost as if the novel is determined to hit you in the face with a shovel about it. Gina, Gina, Gina... it all comes back to Gina. It honestly wouldn't have surprised me to discover that Alice was having an affair with Gina. Not in the slightest. Considering how true to life the author has managed to make everything else, it seems strange that in this aspect there was a complete lack of subtlety.This would probably be a 3.5 star book if I could award half stars. But the fact that it really did tug on my heartstrings means I am going to have to round up rather than down.

Alice is twenty nine, madly in love with her husband and pregnant with their first child. Or so she believes. Alice has just woken up after a head injury at the gym and has lost ten years of her life. Alice is really thirty nine, divorced from her husband and the mother to three children. Alice realises that she is no longer the fun loving woman that she was ten years beforehand but the complete opposite. She's a controlling health freak that is now dating the headmaster at her children's school. However, maybe this knock to the the head was a blessing in disguise? Could the loss of ten years be what it takes to win back both her husband and children's affection as well as returning to the woman that she once was?I am a huge fan of Liane Moriarty's work and this was no exception. With three different perspective's: Alice's; her sister Elizabeth; and her grandmother Frannie; written in different styles: Alice's is actually the narration; Elizabeth's is letters to her doctor; and Frannie's is a blog entry to her fans; this book is a breath of fresh air against everything else you have read this year. She writes compelling stories that drags you in with every word that she writes. Moriarty's worlds are addictive and can have you completing a story in a matter of days.My only downfall with this book was that maybe the epilogue was not necessary. Did we really need to know if Alice ended up with the ex-husband or the headteacher? However, I do believe that if we had not found out then maybe some people would have complained about that too. Moriarty found herself in a win-lose situation with that area but despite feeling like it was not necessary, I did finish reading the book with a massive smile on my face.So not only did this book affirm my love of Liane Moriarty but it also made me get the rest of her books out of the library. How many books have seduced you like that this year?

This is my third Liane Moriarty book but unfortunately this one was nowhere near as good as the other two. Where both The Husbands Secret and Big Little Lies had me gripped throughout, this one left me bored. I don't like any of the main characters and the plot is ridiculous. Who leaves a woman with amnesia home alone and with children she doesn't remember?! I wouldn't recommend this book, there are much better books by this author to be read.

I feel like I’m behind the masses with Liane Moriarty, I’ve wanted to read her books for a while and I think I started with a good one. This was such a good concept - an almost-40-year-old mum of 3 has a bang to the head In the gym and wipes out 10 years of her memory. It makes you think, how much has your life changed in 10 years, how much have you changed; would you even recognise your future self? Alice certainly changed and couldn’t quite believe the person she had become. Such a thought-provoking yet light-hearted read - imagine waking up and not even knowing your own 3 children..? I think Liane hit the nail on the head in her depiction of mum life (ok Alice is definitely a bit of an OTT PTA type but I’m sure it resonates with most mums of school age kids). There has been a lot of change in her and her families lives over the past 10 years and Alice struggles to understand a lot of it, it’s so enlightening seeing her ‘new’ life through the eyes of her younger self. What would you do if you had a more youthful head on your older, more sensible shoulders? Would it change things, could it? I found this book amusing, sad, thought-provoking - a really good read. It has something for everyone, happiness, sadness, loss, love, family bonds, relationships, and much more. I couldn’t wait to find out if and how Alice regained her memory and if she could change things for the better knowing the circumstances that led to her now manic life could perhaps be changed with a different outlook...