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A woman wakes up after a fall and believes it is ten years earlier
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What it is about
Alice Love hits her head at the gym and wakes up thinking she is twenty-nine, happily married and pregnant with her first child. In reality she is thirty-nine, has three children and is in the middle of a divorce. She must work out how her life changed so much.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who like family stories with humor and heart.
What you will get
A page-turning story that asks how you would feel if you could see your own life afresh.
What Alice Forgot Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Literary Fiction · Memory · Marriage · Family
Length
416 pages · ≈ 12 h
More about this book
Characters
Alice Love, her sister Elisabeth and her husband Nick.
Setting
Suburban Sydney.
What makes it different
A woman looks at her own life as if she were a stranger.
Feel
Funny, warm and bittersweet.
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