What Alice Forgot -

Liane Moriarty

Penguin

2010

520 páginas

17h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780141043760

Imagine forgetting the most important ten years of your life.

Alice wakes up on the floor of the gym with a nasty bump to her head, thinking she's still a fun-loving twenty-nine-year-old starting life with her gorgeous husband and pregnant with their first baby.

To her disbelief, it soon transpires the fall has knocked ten years from her memory and she is actually an uptight thirty-nine-year-old whose idea of a good time is a three-hour workout followed by committee meetings with the kind of women she used to despise. How on earth did her life come to this? And more disturbingly, how can she not remember giving birth to three children? Why does her husband suddenly hate her? And what can Alice possibly have done that means her beloved sister will barely speak to her?

Seeing herself through fresh eyes, Alice barely recognizes or even likes the person she has become. Can she ever find her way back to the woman she used to be?

Resenhas (9)

4 (Muito bom)

Alice forgets the last ten years of her life after an inoffensive accident. She wakes up to find that she's living a life completely opposite to the one she had planned out.

Her last memories are around her happy marriage and being pregnant with her first child, but now she's suddenly the mom of the 3 kids and filling for divorce... but why? how?

What Alice Forgot is beautifully written and full of nuances. All the characters are amazingly well-placed and add-up details to understanding Alice's story.

You come to realize that it is okay to change, but that sometimes we need to take a step back and look at some situations as you were not involved, or with yourself's younger perspective. Sure, you grow up and learn and therefore are always becoming the best version of you, but would the old me have something to say about this? Am I still following the guidelines and dreams I've once had? And why not? What was so wrong with it???

Even thought the start went a bit slow for me, I've read this book quite fast and really immersed myself on this family and its dilemmas. Elisabeth is one of my favorite character development's!