What Alice Forgot, (Paperback)

from Carolinejyoung

How wonderful to have a second chance to put things right! That's what I naively thought when I started to read this book. I say naively because I realised that I was being simplistic as our circumstances change and it's unrealistic to think that we shouldn't have to change to adapt. I liked the ...

from bookchickdi

Alice thinks she is a happily married twenty-nine-year-old woman, pregnant with her first child. When she wakes up after fainting and falling off her bike during a spin class, she is shocked to slowly discover that she is thirty-nine, has three children and a pending divorce. (Reminiscent of anot...

from kiwifortyniner

In this book the main character Alice wakes from a dream to find that she has been injured at the gym and has lost all memories of the last ten years of her life. She thinks she is happily married and expecting her first child when in actual fact she has three children and is in the process of di...

from seekingflight

Alice falls at the gym and hits her head -- and loses 10 years worth of memories. She thinks she is pregnant with her first child and happily married. I really enjoyed this thought exercise (by an Australian writer) -- if you lost your memories of the last 10 years, what would the 'you' of yester...

from lgaikwad

Miroslav Volf raises the idea of intentional forgetting as a part of reconciliation. This story explores that idea as well; how might relationship be reconciled if we could forget that which created separation? I also liked the exploration of how life proceeds in ways we do not imagine. What woul...