What Alice Forgot

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Penguin, Apr 24, 2012 - Fiction - 496 pages
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES AND HERE ONE MOMENT

A “cheerfully engaging”(Kirkus Reviews) novel for anyone who’s ever asked herself, “How did I get here?”

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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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
14
Section 3
30
Section 4
39
Section 5
52
Section 6
58
Section 7
68
Section 8
81
Section 21
259
Section 22
266
Section 23
276
Section 24
294
Section 25
313
Section 26
328
Section 27
352
Section 28
366

Section 9
93
Section 10
104
Section 11
113
Section 12
134
Section 13
148
Section 14
158
Section 15
175
Section 16
188
Section 17
206
Section 18
215
Section 19
232
Section 20
247
Section 29
384
Section 30
400
Section 31
410
Section 32
416
Section 33
432
Section 34
440
Section 35
445
Section 36
448
Section 37
469
Section 38
476
Section 39
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About the author (2012)

Liane Moriarty is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Nine Perfect StrangersThree WishesTruly Madly GuiltyBig Little LiesThe Husband’s SecretThe Hypnotist’s Love Story, and What Alice Forgot. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children.

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