Book Review

On this day last year I had just finished the above book and wrote

a review in my diary.

The tag line is - Was losing her memory the best thing that ever happened to her?

The story is about Alice who loses her memories of the last 10 years

after an accident.

It had quite an impact on me at the time and set me to thinking, what if?

In Alices's mind she was happily married, pregnant with her first child and had a good

relationship with her family - that was 10 years ago.

Ten years on she and her husband are separated, her sister hates her and her son in 10 years old

and she has missed all his childhood.

What happened in those intervening years that made her life so unrecognisable from what it was.

Just imagine if you lost your memories  - and woke up 10 years younger.  Would you do

everything the same way, make the same decisions.

The theme is similar to the film 'Sliding Doors' where just one action told a

completely different story,

or

'Shirley Valentine' where she says

"Where has she gone, the girl that was me"

Maybe a whole bunch of different decisions could have

been made with a much more satisfying outcome.

I could say that there is a whole world out there that I have never seen and

things I haven't done that I should have, but

I can't think of anything that I would rather have been doing over the last couple of decades,

 perhaps the journey could have been better, or a

different route taken to get to the same end.

This book provoked a lot of thought, like

when did I get so old and

would I really have done anything different

if I was given the choice.?

I'll never know.