What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty
What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty
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What Alice Forgot

Author: Liane Moriarty

Narrator: Tamara Lovatt Smith

Unabridged: 13 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/20/2011


Synopsis

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HUSBAND'S SECRET AND BIG LITTLE LIES.

A “cheerfully engaging”(Kirkus Reviews) novel for anyone who’s ever asked herself, “How did I get here?”

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 (a gym! She HATES the 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, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over...

About Liane Moriarty

Born in November of 1966, Liane Moriarty was a child who always loved to read.

Her career began in advertising and marketing. She became quite corporate for a while and wore suits and worried a lot about the size of her office. She eventually left her position as marketing manager of a legal publishing company to run her own business called “The Little Ad Agency”. After that she worked as a freelance advertising copywriter, writing everything from websites and TV commercials to the back of the Sultana Bran box.

After finding out that her sister (author Jaclyn Moriarty) was about to have one of her own novels published, Liane rushed to the computer and wrote a children’s book called The Animal Olympics, which went on to be enthusiastically rejected by every publisher in Australia.

She calmed down and enrolled in a Master’s degree at Macquarie University in Sydney. As part of that degree, she wrote her first novel, Three Wishes. Since then she has written five more novels for adults, The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotists Love Story, The Husband's Secret and most recently Big Little Lies.

In August 2013 Liane’s fifth novel The Husband’s Secret was released in the US and within two weeks had climbed the charts to become a #1 New York Times Bestseller.

Liane's latest novel Big Little Lies was published in July 2014 and debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list, making Liane the first Australian author to have a novel debut in the top spot in the US. Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon snapped up the film and television rights.

Liane is now a full-time author. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two small children who like to climb all over her while she tries to write helpfully smashing their fists against the keyboard and suggesting she might like to watch the Wiggles instead.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maja (The Nocturnal Library) on July 21, 2016

487 pages of pure torture! What Alice Forgot was not at all what I expected. That should teach me never to read a book that hasn’t been rated by at least one of my trusted friends. You see, I thought this would be a well written, intelligent, heartwarming story about a woman who loses ten years of h......more

Goodreads review by Yun on November 24, 2024

Women's fiction at its best, What Alice Forgot is everything I've come to love from Liane Moriarty. Alice gets bumped on her head and loses ten years of her memory. The last thing she remembers is being twenty-nine, in love with her husband Nick, and pregnant with their first child. Instead, she's no......more

Goodreads review by Carissa on January 23, 2013

I don't give out a lot of 5 stars. THIS. Was worth it. Spoke to me on several levels. In fact parts were painful to read since it felt like Moriarty was describing my life, and I didn't like what I saw? I think you can describe this as Chick-Lit... which I normally wouldn't be thrilled to read, but......more

Goodreads review by jessica on November 08, 2022

the thing i love most about this book is the flow. the writing is just so effortlessly easy that you cant help but get sucked into the narrative and then all of the sudden youre already 300 pages in. its just one of those books where you can breeze right through. i also really enjoyed the characters.......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on December 16, 2020

5+ Stars This was a fantastic book – overall, 100% through and through fantastic! It was funny. It was heart-wrenching. It was thought provoking. So well written that I was intensely invested the entire time. No mind wandering at all! No filler! The characters . . . oh, the characters . . . so great –......more


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Praise for What Alice Forgot

“Funny and knowing...[about] what we choose to remember, and fight to forget.”O Magazine

“The gripping story of a woman who wakes up with a bump on her head and no knowledge of the past ten years...an acutely observed romantic comedy that is both thought-provoking and funny.”Marie Claire (UK)

“The affecting tale of Alice’s chance for a ten-year do-over.”The New York Times

“Grabbed me on the first page…a deep and wondrous novel.”New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice

“I loved this book. It has, for me, everything that makes a good novel excellent.”New York Times bestselling author Jeanne Ray

“Heartfelt, witty, and thought-provoking...a story you’ll remember.”New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Crusie

“Highly addictive.”She Magazine (UK; Book of the Month)

“I loved this original read.”The Sun (UK)

“Funny and captivating.”Closer (UK)

“Winning...well-paced, and thoroughly pleasurable.”Publishers Weekly

“An often funny, sometimes heartrending, deeply personal portrait of a woman attempting to unravel her own mystery.”Booklist

“Moriarity makes this more than just a one-note story, weaving in a plotline involving Alice's childless sister...intriguing...will keep readers guessing and curious to know more about Alice.”Library Journal