What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty

What Alice Forgot

Liane Moriarty

出版社

Penguin

出版时间

2010-06-10

ISBN

9780141043760

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

Remember the woman you used to be ...

Alice is twenty-nine. She is whimsical, optimistic and adores sleep, chocolate, her ramshackle new house and her wonderful husband Nick. What's more, she's looking forward to the birth of the 'Sultana' - her first baby.

But now Alice has slipped and hit her head in her step-aerobics class and everyone's telling her she's misplaced the last ten years of her life.

In fact, it would seem that Alice is actually thirty-nine and now she loves schedules, expensive lingerie, caffeine and manicures. She has three children and the honeymoon is well and truly over for her and Nick. In fact, he looks at her like she's his worst enemy. What's more, her beloved sister Elisabeth isn't speaking to her either. And who is this 'Gina'everyone is so carefully trying not to mention?

Alice isn't sure that she likes life ten years on. Every photo is another memory she doesn't have and nothing makes sense. Just how much can happen in a decade? Has she really lost her lovely husband for ever?

The eldest of six children, Liane Moriarty is a freelance advertising copywriter based in Sydney. She writes everything from catalogues to websites, from TV commercials to cereal boxes and has won industry awards for her work. She is currently working on her third novel, and lives by the sea with her partner, Eric. Her first novel Three Wishes was published in 2004, and her new...

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用户评论
没懂,恢复记忆后咋就对nick 转变了。
10年里,不知怎么的就由爱转恨了…不明白,数次泪奔。
喜欢这个结尾 有裂痕的就是无法修补
第一次看以澳洲为背景的虚构,澳洲中产阶级生活一窥,与美国中部别无二致,适合家庭主妇或已婚女性消遣练习英语。
烂尾,女主对前夫转变太快
英文有声书。最大的感想就是大一在普心课上学到的“情绪记忆是多么的重要”,关系的好坏很大程度上都是取决于情绪记忆。前一半更好看,后边开始略有点无聊,中产家庭婚姻生活的鸡毛蒜皮。最后的结尾其实是意料之中的失望,感觉很难能有个结局能让我不失望,可能是开放性的更好吧。
I love it!!!
I had a lot of mixed feelings. This is a mix of an adult fairytale (who gets to randomly go to a spin class and gets knocked out, losing ten struggling aging years and having to start over) and a heavy real life story (it's so real and complex that I can taste the bitter sweet). Parenthood is challenging, but it doesn't mean it isn't amazing.
it’s good only for the last two chapters. Happy ending though. Eli has a baby and she is suddenly mentally ok which is such a cliche and unrealistic. Alice got back with Nick and even better which is also reasonable. After all they love each other and just caught up in the wrong circle. Now their circle cross again.
What Alice forgot was the younger her. It seems like most of family conflicts are caused by children, but we are not lucky as Alice that had a chance to lose memories.
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