After she injured her head in the gym, 39 year old Alice forgot the last decade. She thinks she’s still in her twenties and married to the love of her life, Nick. But she’s in the middle of a terrible divorce, Nick hates her and she has two kids she doesn’t remember at all. She does her best to pick up her life, but she doesn’t recognise the woman she has become and she doesn’t like her either.
Alice is intent on stopping the divorce which annoys Nick, for he’s had enough of her shenanigans. Alice tries to find out what happened, and she does so by reading her sister’s therapy journals and letters from her grandmother. She uncovers petty resentments, IVF disappointments and career obsession.
Like most of Liane Moriarty’s books I’ve read, this one draws you in and doesn’t let go. It’s hard to imagine forgetting an entire decade and it was so lovely to see that Alice decided she didn’t like what she saw, and made sure she changed it.
Read for The 52 Book Club Reading Challenge 2026
Prompt 38: Domestic fiction
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
