What Alice Forgot

Alice Love falls off her bike at the gym and wakes up on the floor convinced it is 1998. In her mind she is twenty-nine, blissfully in love with her husband Nick, and pregnant with her first child. The truth is far stranger: it is actually ten years later, she is thirty-nine, she has three children she does not remember having, and she and Nick are locked in a bitter divorce.

As Alice tries to recover the lost decade, she is baffled by the brittle, over-scheduled woman she has apparently become, and by the warmth she still feels for a husband everyone says she now hates. Retracing her own life like a detective, she begins to wonder whether forgetting might be a second chance to choose differently.

Liane Moriarty pairs a clever high-concept premise with her signature blend of humor and emotional insight. What Alice Forgot is a warm, wry, quietly moving novel about marriage, motherhood, and how easily people drift from the lives and the loves they once wanted.