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What Alice Forgot (2009) by Liane Moriarty is a novel in which thirty-nine-year-old Alice Love falls off her spinning bike during an exercise class and wakes up believing she is twenty-nine — the last ten years of her life have been erased. She doesn't know she's getting divorced, that she has three children, that she's become a different woman from the one she was, or why. What Alice Forgot is Moriarty's most moving novel — a domestic story about what we lose in the course of growing up, what we owe to the people we used to be, and whether marriages can be saved by remembering what was worth preserving.
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What Alice Forgot (2009)
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What Alice Forgot
Liane Moriarty·2009 - 2Buy
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty·2014·Moriarty's breakout novel — more thriller-paced than What Alice Forgot but equally driven by female friendship and domestic suspense. - 3Buy
The Husband's Secret
Liane Moriarty·2013·Moriarty's companion domestic suspense novel — a woman discovers her husband's terrible secret; similar emotional register to What Alice Forgot.
What Alice Forgot — Frequently Asked Questions
Is What Alice Forgot part of a series?
No — all of Liane Moriarty's novels are standalones. What Alice Forgot was published in 2009 and was Moriarty's breakout novel in Australia before Big Little Lies became her international breakthrough in 2014.
Is What Alice Forgot similar to a time-travel novel?
What Alice Forgot is not a time-travel novel — Alice doesn't go back in time, she simply can't remember the last ten years. The novel uses the amnesia premise as a way to look at a marriage from two perspectives simultaneously: the young woman who fell in love and the older woman who has become estranged from that love.
Is What Alice Forgot as good as Big Little Lies?
What Alice Forgot is considered by many Moriarty readers to be her most emotionally resonant novel — it received excellent reviews and is often recommended alongside Big Little Lies as one of her two best works. It is less thriller-paced than Big Little Lies but more moving.
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