What Alice forgot

486 pages

English language

Published Dec. 8, 2010 by Michael Joseph.

ISBN:
978-0-14-104376-0
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OCLC Number:
751428670

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Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine her surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital to find out that she's getting divorced, has three kids, and is actually thirty-nine. Now Alice must reconstruct a lost decade -- and try to reconstruct her life. 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, she must discover if forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and if it's possible to start over.

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Thank you, Goodreads, for the discussions that have helped me steer my way through the enormous piles of popular books that I don't think would work for me.

I liked this at the start, but then it started to drag. I think that the fact that the MC didn't know who she was, the fact that she seemed surrounded by characters that I didn't like much, and the obvious misery she was waking up to all combined for me into somewhere I just didn't want to go every night.

I have gotten sort of adamant about what stories go into my brain, and more and more, I find the contemporary scene depressing, overly complicated, and not very inspired. Maybe I am wrong, maybe this would have turned around into something wonderful.

But it didn't feel like it. And I want my books to be wonderful, or at least a lot 


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Unscheinbar kommt das Cover daher und auch der Klappentext klingt nach einer Standardgeschichte. Dass jemand sein GedÀchtnis verliert und erst alles neu kennenlernen muss, ist ja keine neue Idee. Es gibt sie schon hundertfach in verschiedensten Romanen und doch sticht diese Geschichte von Liane Moriarty hervor. Denn sie ist besonders und anders.

Woran liegt das? Zum Einen an den Personen, an Alice selbst, mit der man aber dem ersten Kapitel mit fĂŒhlt und die ihre Geschichte so angenehm und mitreißend erzĂ€hlt. Auch ihr Umfeld ist interessant und vielfĂ€ltig, ihre verrĂŒckte Familie, in Form von leicht egoistischer Mutter, hipper Großmutter und ihrer Schwester, die von großen Sorgen geplagt wird. Alice' Kinder sind toll, man schließt sie schnell ins Herz. Und ihre kindliche Grausamkeit lockert oft die dramatische Stimmung lustig auf.

Das Buch ist Schritt fĂŒr Schritt aufgebaut. Die Autorin lĂ€sst sich Zeit, was dazu fĂŒhrt, dass man sich noch 


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Subjects

  • Family relationships
  • Amnesiacs
  • Fiction