She was floating arms outspread water lapping her body breathing in a summery fragrance of salt and coconut She had to squint through spangles of light to see her feet Her toenails were each painted a different colour Red Gold Purple Funny When Alice Love surfaces from a beautiful dream to find shes been injured in a gym she knows that something is very wrong - she hates exercise Alices first concern is her baby - shes pregnant with her first child and shes desperate to see her husband Nick who she knows will be worried about her But Alice isnt pregnant And Nick isnt worried Alice is the mother of three children and her hostile husband is in the process of divorcing her Alice has lost ten years of her life Alices sister Elisabeth who seems uncharacteristically cold drives her home from the hospital And home is totally unrecognisable as is the rest of her life Who is this Gina that everyone is carefully trying not to mention Why does her mother look like shes wearing fancy dress And whats all this talk about a giant lemon meringue pie In the days that follow small bubbles of the past rise to the surface and Alice is forced to confront uncomfortable truths It turns out forgetting might be the most memorable thing thats ever happened to her.
