It’s her fourth novel to be adapted, after Big Little Lies, The Hypnotist’s Love Story and Perfect Strangers. Her stories are both resonant and addictive – two qualities essential for great TV viewing.” I love how she uses the disappearance of a parent as a catalyst to unearth decades long, unresolved issues within a family, but somehow does it all with biting wit, humour and ultimately hope,” he says.Īccording to Page, president of Heyday: “Liane has a gift for creating fully formed characters with deep inner lives and complicated dynamics that pop off the screen and connect with audiences on a visceral level.

“Liane Moriarty has once again created a compulsively complicated and messy family dynamic. Heyday founder David Heyman says he was captivated by Apples Never Fall. Nicole Kidman, Moriarty, Reese Witherspoon and producer Bruna Papandrea at the after party of HBO’s Big Little Lies in Hollywood in 2017. Remarkably, for much of the time she was writing, Moriarty says she didn’t know if Stan was innocent or guilty. Things are not as rosy for the couple as they seem to the outside world – both seem to be struggling in retirement – and then, out of the blue, Joy goes missing. It tells the story of Stan and Joy Delaney, who have been married for several decades, have four children and run a successful tennis school. Those real-life stories, consumed via true-crime podcasts, inspired her most recent novel, Apples Never Fall. “He is invariably described as a loving father and that just got me thinking about how would I feel if my mother went missing and everyone was saying my father had possibly murdered her.” “Sadly there are multiple cases where a woman goes missing and the husband is the chief suspect in her murder,” she tells The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Walking is a great time for story ideas to percolate, says the 55-year-old best-selling author, and when she was given some new headphones she went on a deep-dive listening to true crime. Their four adult children are busy living their own lives, and while it could be argued they never quite achieved their destinies, no-one ever says that out loud.īut now Joy Delaney has disappeared and her children are re-examining their parents’ marriage and their family history with fresh, frightened eyes.Author Liane Moriarty photographed at home in 2016. Even after all these years, former tennis coaches Joy and Stan are still winning tournaments, and now they’ve sold the family business they have all the time in the world to learn how to ‘relax'. The brand new novel from the worldwide Number One bestselling author behind Nine Perfect Strangers and the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning HBO series Big Little Lies.įrom the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family.

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