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What Alice Forgot

Liane Moriarty

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Jun 02, 2015 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, womens-day, chick-lit

I inhaled this book, and I adored this book.

This book just hit that sweet spot inside me where the very best books go. I don't even know how Moriarty does it, on the surface her characters are people I don't identify with, and yet ... I identify. Oh, how I identify!!

I've seen a lot of reviews discussing whether this is "chick lit" or "psychological thriller" or something else entirely. It's none of those. It's not genre fiction. This is about how people change (or don't change) as they age, how ...more

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Nov 24, 2014 Megan rated it it was amazing

It was so good I really didn't want to put it down. ...more

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Mar 02, 2017 Malina rated it really liked it

Shelves: book-club-reads

This was a fun little read that is interesting for anyone who ever wondered "how did I get here?" In reference to life taking unexpected turns. I was definitely thinking about me ten years ago for several weeks after this book. The Australian setting made it interesting as well. I enjoyed her method of writing Ina stream of consciousness and liked the main character. The other characters who wrote I didn't like quite as much. ...more

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May 07, 2020 Lindsay rated it really liked it

Not my normal genre. And maybe it seems so good because I’ve been starved for reading due to COVID-19, but I thought I captured human nature and marriage and how family relationships take effort so exactly. How everyone is at such different stages and it can be hard to relate but also how some bonds just hold us there and are worth it. I thought it was beautiful and insightful.

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Jun 22, 2016 Maria Elmvang rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned-ebook, 4-stars, fiction, 2016

I really wanted to give this book 5 stars. For most of it I lived the book, in a way that I haven't done for a long time. I loved seeing people react to "young Alice" and was fascinated by the idea of having lost all memory of the last 10 years (how would I react if I thought it was 2006 and woke up to 2016? Probably wouldn't be quite as big a shock as for Alice, as there haven't been quite as many changes in my life - but still!).

Unfortunately the end was a bit of a let-down. Once Alice gets he ...more

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Oct 06, 2014 Megan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Awesome story. I just loved it.

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Apr 10, 2014 Lisa rated it really liked it

Shelves: library-has, 2015

Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child.

So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over — she’s getting divorced, she has three kids and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her ...more

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Aug 03, 2016 Cheryl rated it really liked it

An excellent premise for a well-executed novel; I really had a hard time putting this one down. I loved how Moriarty gives us snippets of what happened in Alice's 10 "lost" years as she realizes what has brought her to the person she has now become.

Highly recommended. ...more

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