The story is largely told from her perspective, but with two other streams: her sister's journal and her grandmother's blog. This works well. The book as a whole is like a jigsaw, where the reader is gradually guided to insert all the pieces. Right up until the end, it was not obvious what the final outcome would be.
8 Feb 2013
What Alice Forgot - by Liane Moriarty
What a good read! Although this was quite a sizable book, because I was reading it on my Kindle, I did not notice and kept turning the pages. Alice's memory loss is used as a vehicle for her to examine her own feelings and, eventually, to look back on the past decade with fresh eyes. There is a lot of careful detail, which, for me at least, gave credibility. For example, her early flashes of recall were triggered by smells; in my experience, smell is a very strong stimulant to emotion and memory.
The story is largely told from her perspective, but with two other streams: her sister's journal and her grandmother's blog. This works well. The book as a whole is like a jigsaw, where the reader is gradually guided to insert all the pieces. Right up until the end, it was not obvious what the final outcome would be.
The story is largely told from her perspective, but with two other streams: her sister's journal and her grandmother's blog. This works well. The book as a whole is like a jigsaw, where the reader is gradually guided to insert all the pieces. Right up until the end, it was not obvious what the final outcome would be.
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