If you feel, hit your head, and were knocked unconscious then woke up and you had forgot the last ten years, what kind of person would you be? Would you be different? What if the current you was harder and not as nice, more jaded and so now you were feeling like your younger self and had back your old feeling, perspective, and optimism, would it change the life choices you had been making before the bump on your head?
That is what happens to Alice. When she wakes up she doesn't remember anything that has happened in the past 10 years, including the birth of her three children and the crumbling of her marriage. She doesn't much like the older her and feels like the 29 year old she last remembers being. Imagine looking at your husband and loving him like crazy but being apart for something you don't remember. Imagine seeing your three children and having no memories of them at all.
What I loved most about this story was that it addressed an interesting question, what a good relationship looks like and how it grows and changes over the years. Not just the couple relationship but with our friends, siblings, children, and parents. How much are shared memories, a history that doesn't require many words to access worth in the forming and maintaining of a relationship?
This was a beautiful story of love and loss and healing.
I really enjoyed the story and the writing style so I think I will try out more books by Moriarty.
(Finished February 14, 2016)
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