What Alice Forgot (Thorndike Press Large Print Core) - Hardcover

Moriarty, Liane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410475042 ISBN 13: 9781410475046

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2015

Synopsis

From the author of the #1 "New York Times "bestseller, THE HUSBAND'S SECRET...
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA"
A "cheerfully engaging"* 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...
*"Kirkus Reviews"

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Review:

"Funny and knowing... [about] what we choose to remember, and fight to forget." --"O magazine"

"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"

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

"Funny and captivating." --"Closer "(UK)

"I loved this original read." --"The Sun" (UK)

"Highly addictive." --"She "Magazine (UK; Book of the Month)

"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
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"Grabbed me on the first page...a deep and wondrous novel." --Luanne Rice

"I loved this book. It has, for me, everything that makes a good novel excellent." --Jeanne Ray

From the Back Cover:

Imagine losing the most important ten years of your life . . .

Alice is twenty-nine. She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house. She's newly engaged to the wonderful Nick and is pregnant with her first baby.

There's just one problem. All that was ten years ago . . .

Alice has slipped in a step-aerobics class, hit her head and lost a decade. Now she's a grown-up, bossy mother of three in the middle of a nasty divorce and her beloved sister Elisabeth isn't speaking to her. This is her life but not as she knows it.

Clearly Alice has made some terrible mistakes. Just how much can happen in a decade?

Can she ever get back to the woman she used to be?

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1410475042
• ISBN 13: 9781410475046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 683