Chris's Reviews > What Alice Forgot

A lot of the blurbs about this book identified it as funny among other things. I found nothing to laugh at. I think my rating of the novel is probably in the minority, I really had looked forward to reading this.
Alice sustains a head injury and loses the memory of the last 10 years of her life. A very interesting premise for a story but the presentation was often too fragmented for me, kind of jarring, one of the big mysteries went on for TOO long. I did root for some of these characters, but I wasn't sure I wanted Alice to get her memory back. The glimpses we were getting of the current Alice weren't too warm & fuzzy to say the least! There were 3 voices that had narration "duties", I got used to them but wasn't thrilled with the way 2 of the voices were structured in the novel.

"Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But love after three children, ...after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored with each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best- well, that sort of love is ineffable."