This was a book club pick that I read as an audiobook.
The premise is fascinating. A woman sustains a head injury and believes she's ten years younger with all the hopes and dreams of the future that carries. What she faces is a hard dose of reality of how those ten years turned out. And it's not so happily ever after.
A great novel of discovery as we see through Alice's eyes what she's prioritized and how, without her memories, she chooses to prioritize her life moving forward. There are plenty of heartwrenching moments, like not recognizing her children, the failure of her marriage, and the mystery around Gina that the author breaks up with the humor that losing ten years of your life would ensue.
What was most important to me was that Alice learned and grew through this experience. Thank you Ms. Moriarty for succeeding on this point. The other plot point I had my hopes pinned on was the reconcilation of the marriage. You'll have to read the book to see if this aspect was a success or failure.
This novel is well written and worth the read/listen. It will have you reflecting on how you might want to reprioritize your life.
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...
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