Alice passes out one day in the gym and wakes up thinking she’s 29 and pregnant. In reality, she is 39, has three children and is in the middle of an ugly divorce with her soon-to-be-ex-husband Nick. She also wakes up a lot more relaxed than she was before the fall off the exercise bicycle and can’t imagine what caused her to become so driven and appearance conscious. She learns she hasn’t spoke to her sister in years, something she can’t ever imagine, her mother has married Nick’s father and the once shy wallflower is now salsa dancing. Alice must deal with the loss of her memory, her fractured relationships, Elisabeth’s infertility and the discovery that she witnesses her best friend Gina’s death in a freak car accident. Alice’s journey to rediscover herself will appeal to anyone who has ever wished for the chance to reinvent themselves. Alice faces her challenges with grace and good humor and Liane Moriarity writes with a light touch that has readers never giving up hope that all will work out well for Alice in the end.
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Read this book after reading your post and having a close relative with memory loss due to a fall. The story was tough to get started with the two other sub-stories intermingled. Once I got going I was hooked. This story is more about the ability to starting over and finding a median between what we think our past was like (rose glasses) and our current situation (not what we expected)than dealing with memory loss. The story reminds me to truly see what we need in life and simplify. At first I thought the ending was too easy and fast for the buildup but then once I thought about it, it was just right for the idea being posed.
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