What Alice Forgot

I picked this up because somebody at work asked about it and I picked it up to see...and couldn't put it down. I read it on lunch hours until my day off, when I splurged and bought it with lunch money and finished it at Sam's while waiting for a new battery to be put in my car.

The writing is great. Liane Moriarty is most definitely talented!

The main character, Alice, has gone from a pleasant woman who takes time for the people in her life to one who has everything and could care less about most people. She's taken scars in the battle of life. She's not the same anymore...and yet that person she used to be is still there, deep inside. It's fascinatingly psychological.

She does make a few moral choices that I could take issue with, but there's nothing graphic or nasty. There are a handful of four-letter words, but somehow not in a way that they bothered me as deeply as at other times in other books, and a bit of ball-point ink can fix that. (The instances of language will make me think twice about buying other books of Moriarty's, but I can swallow a few with the aid of marking them out in my copy...and still call this a really good read.)

I loved the message about the importance of the people in our lives.