What Alice Forgot has been sat on my shelf for over a year
and by chance, I picked it up and decided to give a go, it was a really
refreshing surprise. Alice Love wakes up on the floor of a gym thinking she’s a
newly pregnant twenty nine year old happily in love, she is horrified to
discover she’s actually thirty nine, getting divorced and has three children
she can’t remember. The love of her life hates her, her sister doesn’t seem to
like her much, her mother has remarried and apparently her best friend Gina who
she remembers nothing about, is dead. The story is told through three different
perspectives, Alice’s story, and her sister’s journal entries to her doctor and
her grandmother Frannies’ blog.
This book is a lovely little surprise, Alice is kind, free-spirited
and deeply cares about those around her, her attempts to guide herself through
a life she doesn’t recognize are endearing and often funny. Her shock and
horror and suddenly becoming a mother to three children and her quick of the
base remarks about how those around her are brilliantly witty.
The rest of the people around Alice are just as interesting
to read, her sisters entries are often bitter and heart-breaking as well as
being funny and are a real change in direction from Alice’s chapters. Frannie’s
show a well-grounded character in Alice’s life, one who can clearly see what is
best for her.
The best part about this book is how those around Alice see
themselves and the way they have changed through the eyes of twenty nine year
old Alice. It really makes you ask how much have you changed in ten years, what
you have lost about yourself that you’d love to have back.
Towards the end I was concerned it wouldn’t go in the
direction I’d been praying for but it turned out to be exactly what I wanted!
I gave it a four out of five, it was such a fantastic and
unexpected little book! Definitely reading her next one.
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