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“Here’s the best news you’ve heard all year: Not a single page disappoints....The only difficulty with Truly Madly Guilty? Putting it down.” ―Miami Herald

“Captivating, suspenseful…tantalizing.” ―People Magazine

Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It’s just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong?

In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families.

Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit busy, life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there’s anything they can count on, it’s each other.

Clementine and Erika are each other’s oldest friends. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. But theirs is a complicated relationship, so when Erika mentions a last-minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors, Tiffany and Vid, Clementine and Sam don’t hesitate. Having Tiffany and Vid’s larger-than-life personalities there will be a welcome respite.

Two months later, it won’t stop raining, and Clementine and Sam can’t stop asking themselves the question: What if we hadn’t gone?

In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty takes on the foundations of our lives: marriage, sex, parenthood, and friendship. She shows how guilt can expose the fault lines in the most seemingly strong relationships, how what we don’t say can be more powerful than what we do, and how sometimes it is the most innocent of moments that can do the greatest harm.

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“Here’s the best news you’ve heard all year: Not a single page disappoints…The only difficulty with Truly Madly Guilty? Putting it down.” ―Miami Herald

"Perfect for those long summer days, but readers will have to pace themselves to not devour it in one sitting.” ―Library Journal (starred review)

Entertainment Weekly’s “Best Beach Bet,” Summer ’16

A USA Today Hot Books for Summer Selection

A Miami Herald Summer Reads Pick

“Liane Moriarty is one of the few writers I’ll drop anything for. Her books are wise, honest, beautifully observed, and―unusually―I can never tell where they’re going to go.” ―Jojo Moyes

"The author of Big Little Lies―which is being made into an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon―brings it again. This time, the lives of a few happy families are changed forever after a barbecue. Well done, in more ways than one." ―Skimm Reads

“Emotionally riveting…Moriarty is a deft storyteller who creates believable, relatable characters. The well-drawn cast here will engage readers and remind them that life halfway around the world isn’t much different from life here―families argue, neighbors meddle and children push boundaries.” ―Washington Post

“[A] masterpiece…Extremely relatable and thought-provoking…Ms. Moriarty’s shining talent in Truly Madly Guilty is her uncanny ability to get into the mind of her well-developed characters, turn the mirror on the reader and make you think about your own relationships, both past and present.” ―Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Moriarty is a talented tale-spinner and a sharp, witty social observer…Moriarty fans, pack Truly Madly in your beach bag.” ―USA Today

“Truly Madly Guilty will be widely read…It has all the requisite trademarks of one of her hits…It probes some of the things she writes about best: fraught friendships, covert backbiting, stale marriages.” ―New York Times

“Stacked with her signature themes: female friendship, duplicity, the darkness lurking beneath lucky, ordinary suburban lives…The last twist, though, is nearly worth the wait, and what sets Moriarty’s writing apart…has as much to do with her canny insights into human nature as her clever plotting…Compelling.” ―Entertainment Weekly

“Moriarty’s fans will rejoice at her latest title as she tackles marriage, parenthood, friendship, and sex, in this provocative and gripping read...This novel sheds light on the truths that we all fear as parents, spouses, and friends. It’s perfect for those long summer days, but readers will have to pace themselves to not devour it in one sitting.” ―Library Journal (starred review)

“Perhaps the most anticipated release this summer, Moriarty is at her finest in this keep you guessing multi-family drama surrounding a tragic event at a casual neighborhood barbecue. You will not soon forget this cast of troubled yet very likable characters, and the relationships that both bind and nearly destroy them.” ―Huffington Post

"The author of Big Little Lies doing what she does best: unraveling people's public selves with an urgency that keeps you reading." ―Glamour Magazine

“[A] brilliant story of love, marriage, parenthood and, of course, guilt…It’s wonderfully suspenseful, slyly sentimental, sometimes outright sad―and also truly, madly, amazingly funny.” ―Forth Worth Star-Telegram

“Liane Moriarty has done it again. Truly Madly Guilty has it all―suspense, drama, humor, and a cracking story cleverly told.” ―Fabulous Magazine (UK)

About the Author

Liane Moriarty is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret, and Truly Madly Guilty; the New York Times bestsellers Nine Perfect Strangers, What Alice Forgot, and The Last Anniversary; The Hypnotist’s Love Story; and Three Wishes. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Flatiron Books; Reprint edition (July 25, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250069807
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250069801
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.43 x 1.47 x 8.34 inches

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Liane Moriarty is the Australian author of eight internationally best-selling novels: Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, Nine Perfect Strangers and the number one New York Times bestsellers: The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty. Her books have been translated into over forty languages and sold more than 20 million copies.

Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty both debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list - the first time this was ever achieved by an Australian author. Big Little Lies was adapted into a multiple award-winning HBO series with a star-studded cast including Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon. Hulu is adapting Nine Perfect Strangers into a limited series starring Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy for release in 2021.

Her new novel, Apples Never Fall, will be released in September 2021.

Liane lives in Sydney, Australia, together with her husband, son and daughter. You can find out more at www.lianemoriarty.com and www.facebook.com/LianeMoriartyAuthor

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Really enjoyed it. Love how the point of view of each character is shown. Luv the twists and turns and relationship dynamics. Would read this author again.

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The Second Half Saved The Book For Me

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2017

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Liane Moriarty had me a little worried with this book. For the majority of the first half of the story, I felt like I was in the dark, walking cautiously around waiting for a light to shine and show me the way. Then, the second half happened and that flash of light appeared and made things so much more clearer.

Seriously, the second half of the story really saved this book for me. The first half didn’t really engaged me. Having the narrative perspective shift from the different characters and jump timelines, kinda gave the story a disjointed tone. It took me a time to get used to the shifting and time changes and that happened once I saw that Moriarty was trying to relate the aftermath of the events of the barbecue while also building up that curiosity regarding that day. And while she did succeed on that end, not knowing exactly what happened until later on in the book, left the first half as a confusing bunch of narratives that seemingly had no purpose or connection. It made it hard for me to get interested in what was going on with all the characters. So my reading of the first half was one of indifference. The one thought that kept running in my head was that the payoff better be good considering the build up towards the barbecue.

Once you get to the second half and finally know what exactly happened, then the things you read in the first part made sense. Moriarty used the first part to help establish not only the characters themselves but more importantly the relationships (or lack thereof) between the players which would play a part in the upcoming second act. Finally knowing what happened (which is a pretty serious event), gave the story that spark it was lacking when we didn’t know what happened back in the beginning. Knowing the source of conflict and guilt (the title now makes sense and highly appropriate), gave context to the current situations and emotional state all the characters are in. It made them and their story more interesting. And this is where Moriarty really shines and what made her other works good. She’s able to get to the heart of the story, focusing on the characters themselves and their inner turmoil. And I enjoyed how she managed to give every character some amount of guilt and was able to make it all connect to one another.

I consider myself a patient reader, who is willing to wait through a slow/mediocre beginning with the hope that the book gets better. While there have been times that it doesn’t pay off, more often than not, my patience gets rewarded. Fortunately, this book was on in the pay off pile. The second half saved this book for me. While it had pockets of interest (e.g. Erika’s hoarding mother and the exploring the possible cause, how it manifests in a person and the impact it has on the family especially the children of hoarders), it lacked the energy that was existed in the second half once you knew exactly what happened. Once that context was provided, it clicked everything in place and not only do you see where everything and everyone fits in, it made the story interesting and engaging. If the whole book was basically like the first act, this would probably be just a good/average read which is disappointing considering the author.

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It's over. And I am at a loss. What do I do now? My new friends have moved on, but I can't seem to do the same. I hate it when this happens! And for me, it happens a lot. I get so attached, they become a part of my everyday world. Then, suddenly, they move on and out of my life and I am left wondering if the characters in the next book I read will have such a profound effect on my mind.

I have finished Liane Moriarty's Truly, Madly Guilty and Clementine, Erika, Holly, Ruby and the rest of these amazing characters have left me feeling like I have let go of a few new friends. They came into my life and now, their stories told, have moved on and I miss them.

That, to me, is the beauty in the writing of Liane Moriarty. She gets into the minds of the characters and shares both the extreme and trivial details that make each character behave in the way that they do and this gives you a feeling that you actually know these people. You have been with them through thick and thin. You have seen what has brought them to their knees and walked with them as they pulled themselves up, dusted off their britches and moved forward with their lives.

This story is written in 3rd person, but each person tells a new chapter and that person has almost 1st person ability to tell not only the background, and what they are thinking, but almost what is going on with everyone else in a 1st person type of viewpoint.

This book is a lot like Big Little Lies, in that you know there was something big that happened, but you don't know exactly what or how, but that it affected everyone who was involved in quite a discernible way. You know that the lives of these people are all different after the Bar-B-Que at Tiffany and Vid's house. But what you learn are the events that led up to that fateful day and how every person who was there is changed and challenged after that day. What you don't know is what actually happened.

That is the beauty of this both Truly Madly Guilty and Big Little Lies. You know what the outcome is, but you don't have any real idea of what caused the problem until the characters have pretty much gotten themselves and their lives almost back on track. Add to that all of the background information given through flashbacks leading up to the moment of crisis and you end the story almost back at the beginning, but you know the entire story which leaves you feeling as though you know the cast of characters completely.

And, if you are like me, you miss them when they leave.

Caroline Lee is the narrator for the Truly Madly Guilty audio, just as she was for Big Little Lies, and she is absolutely magical. Her inflections and change of style for each character exactly matches what you would imagine each of them would sound. Especially her characterization of Vid that is spot on and wonderful. Plus, at the end of the book, there is a Q&A between Lee and Moriarty that is quite interesting and fun to listen to them talk about the characters from their perspectives.

And, just like Big Little Lies, Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman have picked up the rights to Truly Madly Guilty for a movie deal. I can hardly wait! Big Little Lies will be a 7 part series on HBO hopefully airing soon!

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*SPOILER ALERT* Not one of Moriarty's finest

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I'm a big fan of Moriarty's ever since I read Big Little Lies. I had high hopes for this one, but I'm afraid it just didnt do it for me. For one thing, there really is no story; its just about a bbq that ends in an accident. That's pretty much it. So, to fill up several hundred pages, the author came up with the not-so-novel trick of forcing the reader to get to know
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in the whole book. Pages upon pages of detail about the ins and outs of each character, no matter how relevant or not they are to the story. Some of the characters are downright insipid, but we still have to know them like the back of our hands, whether we like it or not. Because otherwise this would be a short story, not a novel.
Secondly, the author uses a really annoying and infuriating writer's technique: time travel. She keeps switching between present and bbq day. Back n forth, back n forth, like a tennis ball. As soon as you get a handle on the present, she takes you back in time to a snippet of bbq day. By the time that chapter has finished, you've forgotten the details of the present in the previous chapter. This happens so much that, not only do you have an almighty headache because of all the toing and froing, but halfway through the book you've lost interest in both the present and the bbq day. This format is pointless here, adding nothing to the book at all.
Normally, I read a book cover to cover in one or two sittings. If its a good book, I find it almost impossible to put it down. But this book dragged so much that it took me two weeks to get to the bitter end. More than just bitter, the end was flat and disappointing.

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AnitaAmazon

Liane Moriarty is SOOOOOOOO GOOD!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 30, 2017

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This author is an absolute extraordinary genius! I just adore all her books, I've read every single one of them and never been disappointed! She creates such fantastic stories, and characters, her books just draw me right in and I could just read them in one sitting, if I didn't have other things to do... I just can't find the words to express how great this book is, please keep writing Liane, I can't wait to read your future books!! I'm always sad when I finish a Liane Moriarty book, for I can't find another author as engaging and original, as she is. I keep thinking about the book I read and the characters, long after I finished the book!

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Jazzberry

A strong premise let down by contrived suspense

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 28, 2017

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I should start by saying I am a big fan of Liane Moriarty. Big Little Lies and The Husband's Secret were amongst the best books I read last year. While the premise - and ending - of this book is fascinating, where it began to irritate was with too much of the 'drip, drip, of information regarding the event at the end. While it is an effective device for building suspense, the blatant dangling of information but not actually telling you anything in this book seemed too contrived at points and actually served only to put me off it. I'm glad I kept going with it as the ending is incredibly strong, and also heartbreaking to read as the parent of two young children.

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A. Neild

I read this in a day!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 29, 2019

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I wasn't expecting this to be as good as Little Lies or The Husband's Secret, both of which I really enjoyed, but I actually liked this even more. I powered through it in a Sunday as I was compelled to find out what THE HELL (!) happened at the infamous barbeque and how the characters came through it all. The suspense went on for just long enough not to be tiresome and I didn't feel the ending was predictable. It was the characterisation that really kept me hooked - none of the characters was an obvious hero/ heroine who we were meant to root for. Everyone was flawed, complex, and behaved like people do - irresponsibly, irrationally and often not very nicely! But I still cared about them. The dysfunctional families/ parents strand of the story struck a personal chord with me as the child of an alcoholic and I thought the author handled it very sensitively and with authenticity. I laughed, I cried, and I felt I wanted to write a review... got to be 5 stars!

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Lucy Ellis

A fantastic book - thoroughly recommended!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 13, 2017

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I wish I hadn't read the reviews for this book before I actually read it. This is a very typical Liane Moriarty book: all of them have a major event that is gradually revealed as the book progresses (what was the husband's secret? Why was the anniversary a big deal? What was the big little lie? What did Alice actually forget? What were the three wishes... and so on) and this is no different. Why were so many people who read this book fixated about the barbecue? There's so much more to this book than that: the gradual unwinding of the complex, diverse characters; the snippets of their lives that build up their stories; key events... and yes, the actual events of the barbecue (but, in some ways, although the major event of the book - and I'm not giving anything away by saying that - actually a minor part of the story). I enjoyed this book tremendously and I very much recommend it. I found it well written, I enjoyed the way that the story unfolds - in the same way that I had in other books by this author. I'm not usually great at writing reviews, but I felt compelled to in this case, because I felt that many of the other reviews were really quite unfair. I hope this review helps those that are undecided due to the number of poorer reviews to actually give it a go.

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