What would your ten-years-ago self say about your life if she stepped into it this morning? Would you like the way you've been conducting your life? Has it turned out the way you had planned? Is the person you are now the person you wanted to be? These are the questions that Alice grapples with after she wakes up on the floor of a gym one morning with a head injury, unexpectedly 39 and divorcing, with three children, instead of 29 and pregnant with their first child, as she remembers being yesterday. There were some page-turning questions that kept me up into the wee hours of the morning - will Alice reconcile with her husband? Will she get her memory back? Who is this Gina that she keeps hazily remembering, and wouldn't she have been better forgotten? Liane Moriarty is a hell of a writer. Watching her reconnect with her sister, and her husband, and her life, makes you want to phone all the people you care about and share your own good memories - makes you think about the choices you've made, and the things you've kept and lost along the way.
Everyone should read this book immediately.
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