A review by jenkepesh
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

The premise of the story is that Alice, on the eve of her 40th birthday, suffers memory loss for the last ten years, bringing her back to her first pregnancy and prior to many changes in her life. Throughout the book, she tries to build a theory of the last ten years while living in the present life of a confident woman of three children, separated from her husband and estranged from her beloved sister. My curiosity was quoted piqued by the depiction of this retrograde amnesiac episode. I wondered if she isn’t be suffering a fugue state and either a trauma related to it or the kind of rare aberration that causes some people to lose knowledge of who they are. What Alice remembers (how to type her password without knowing her password) is also fascinating. Liane Moriarty always writes a book with enough of a twist that it pulls you along.