Friday, December 30, 2016

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

Alice Love is unwell.  At least that is what everyone is telling her after her she hit her head during her Friday morning spin class.   Alice has lost ten years of her life.  The baby she remembers being pregnant with is now ten and has two siblings.  Her husband, the love of her life, the man she remembers being with only the day before, seems to hate her.  They are separated and going through a divorce.  But how could this be?  They were so much in love and she thinks they just have to get back together, but will she feel the same when her memory comes back?  

I’m a fan of Liane Moriarty (I’m listening to her most recent right now) and I enjoyed this one.  As usual there is a lot going on, and the memory loss, which some authors have not done well with, Moriarty makes work.  You find yourself empathizing with both the old and new Alice wondering along with her how things went wrong and how, possibly, they could be made right.