What Alice Forgot

About the book

Twenty-nine-year-old Alice Love wakes up on a gym floor believing she is pregnant and happily married. In reality, ten years have passed; she is thirty-nine, mid-divorce, and a mother of three. After a head injury wipes her memory of the previous decade, Alice must reconstruct her identity while grappling with the harsh woman she has become. She discovers her marriage to Nick has disintegrated into legal battles and her close relationship with her sister Elisabeth has cooled into polite distance. Alice examines her current lifestyle to find why she abandoned her old values for a sharp, organized, and lonely existence.

Readers who enjoy character-driven domestic drama find this story provides a perspective on how small, daily choices accumulate into a different personality over time. It appeals to those interested in the mechanics of long-term relationships and the friction between youthful ideals and middle-aged realities. The reader walks away considering whether their younger self would approve of their current life and recognizing the ways grief and habit reshape human character. This narrative functions as a thought experiment regarding personal growth and memory.

Details

Published

2010

Language

EN