That is exactly what happens to Alice Mary Love in the lively novel, WHAT ALICE FORGOT, by Liane Moriarty.

In a spinning class accident gone badly, Alice wakes up in the middle of the gym floor to find she suffers a concussion. And worst, she seems to have forgotten everything she has been thru the last ten years of her life. She thinks she's 29 and pregnant with her first child and deliriously happy with her beloved husband Nick, when in actuality, she is 39, on the verge of a divorce, and the mother of three rambunctious children.

As the blurry pieces of her present-day life begin to start coming together, Alice discovers that she doesn't like this person she has become. Her life is also falling apart.

So, loaded with determination, Alice sets out to try to find out where her life went wrong and how she can fix it, beginning with getting her husband back, even though everyone is telling her once she remembers she is going to regret it. But determined she is, and conqueror all odds she will -- as soon as she remembers where she has put the keys.

Liane Moriarty spins a fast-paced story of the ultimate middle-age crisis in this delightful book. In addition to the story of Alice's recovery and new goals, Moriarty weaves in several mini-storylines that includes Alice's sister Elizabeth's battle with infertility, and her adopted grandmother Frannie's new fling with love, and her widowed mother Barbara's startling new life with her dancing partner and new husband, Alice's widowed father-in-law.

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