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What Is The Ending Of 'What Alice Forgot'?

Just finished Liane Moriarty's 'What Alice Forgot' and wow, my book club is split! Does she end up with her husband or the new guy after the amnesia plot?
2025-06-24 19:40:37
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Mikel M. Zarrella-Murray
Mikel M. Zarrella-Murray
I finished reading the book What Alice Forgot by Australian author
Liane Moriarty a few days ago. It was a really satisfying read. The book concludes with Alice deciding to give her marriage with Nick another chance. After recalling her lost memories from the past ten years and making amends with her sister, Elizabeth, she comes to the realisation that she still loves the Nick she finds today, not some past version of him. I recently came across a story, ‘This Time, I Let Her Forget Me’, by an American writer where the protagonist does the impossible by making his lover forget their shared past moments in order to spare her from the intense pain of remembering them. It is a poignant and powerful exploration of the ultimate sacrifice that love requires and whether it is possible to start all over again from scratch and work towards new memories and love.
2026-07-30
Peter
Peter
In What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty brings her readers to a beautiful and satisfying conclusion with the gentle reveal of what happens after Alice recovers her lost memories. To her surprise, Alice finds out that she thinks she’s 29, pregnant, and still very much in love with her husband Nick. Little does she know, reality is about to set in and shock her back to reality in rather harsh fashion.

What’s most powerful in the ending to What Alice Forgot is that Alice and Nick don’t have some big reconciliation. Instead, they have a really raw and real conversation where both of them admit their failures. Nick says he stopped trying to make their relationship work, and Alice recognizes how she drove her friends and family away. The final scene shows Alice as a member of P&C at her daughter’s school, laughing with other moms. It’s a really simple moment, but it’s a good indication that Alice has found a way to stay present.

In another clever move by Moriarty, we are given insight into the life of Alice’s sister, Elisabeth. Once so consumed by her own grief over her inability to produce that magic commodity to infertility suffering women, she and her husband have adopted a baby. As they attempt to rekindle the dying embers of their relationship, we are left with the hope of new beginnings for Alice too. Not some fairy tale ending but real life for a real woman.
2025-06-25
Uma
Uma
The ending of 'What Alice Forgot' was both heart-breaking and uplifting. After a gym accident Alice slowly got her life back, but not as she had remembered it. The biggest shock of all was that her marriage to Nick had ended in divorce. And the worst bit was that she had become someone she wouldn’t even recognize. A stressful, contoling version of herself. But the ending was also very hopeful. Alice got to the point where she realized she had been awful, but instead of being bitter, she chose to be better. So even though she and Nick didn’t get back together, the door had been left open for them to start again and Alice also managed to make amends with her sister Elisabeth. They had previously fallen out over her infertility struggles and it had caused a lot of stress between them. But Alice had chosen to be better.
2025-06-25
Ronald
Ronald
'What Alice Forgot' by Liane Moriarty is an extremely emotional read. The amnesia throughout the book was used to help Alice realize how much time had changed her and how she had become the kind of person her 29 year old self would despise. In the ending Alice finally apologizes to Nick for her part in their divorce and takes the blame for their breakup. Their last interaction is a little bittersweet, there is no dramatic rejoining of the two as Alice has finally grown up and realized they grew apart.

Elisabeth’s plot, the adoption, is the complete opposite to Alice’s. While Alice is desperately trying to remember the past, Elisabeth is trying to hold on to the happy memories and deal with the present in a positive way. Her story also develops well in terms of the relationship with her sister and the themes of the novel.

The author has resisted all the clichés of the amnesia genre. The forgotten decade of Alice’s life is not a time that she can return to in her 29-year-old Prime. Rather, she will carry the lessons of her ignorance with her, and the last we see of her is planting a lemon tree, a symbol of things that have been neglected.
2025-06-29
Marites Dawana Ibasan Navarro
Marites Dawana Ibasan Navarro
This is great. As opposed to them living happily ever after, the ending leaves their future a mystery. Instead of them living happily ever after, they’re going to be okay. This is a profoundly different statement than the typical novel ending. Okay implies struggle. It implies that there will be difficulties and times of sadness. However, it also implies that there will be happiness. And the key to their happiness is their work together to manage the struggles. This is the greatest victory of all – the greatest romance of all. A sustainable partnership and loving relationship is not all Passion all the time. Two people can face life together in all its chaos and.pairing to deal with it as they grow and change. That’s the most romantic thing of all.
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