Liane Moriarty – November 19 2017

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – November 25 2017

Liane is a best-selling author of adult and children’s fiction. Her sisters Jaclyn and Nicola are also successful authors. The oldest of six children, Liane grew up in a family that fostered more than 40 children. One of the main characters in her first novel, Three Wishes, was emotionally abused by her ex-fiancé, a character Liane based on one of her own early boyfriends. Liane’s other adult fiction includes The Last Anniversary, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, The Husband’s Secret, for which CBS Films has acquired the film rights, and Truly Madly Guilty, for which Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon have optioned the film rights. Both big little lies and Truly Madly Guilty reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list in their first week of publication – the first time this has been achieved by an Australian author – and big little lies has since been adapted as a television series. Liane’s children’s fiction includes The Petrifying Problem with Princess Petronella, The Shocking Trouble on the Planet of Shobble, The Wicked War on the Planet of Whimsy and the ‘Space Brigade’ series, written under the name LM Moriarty.

big little lies
Pan Macmillan Australia, 2014; ISBN 9781743530429
The internationally bestselling author turns her unique gaze on the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves every day and what really goes on behind closed suburban doors. ‘I guess it started with the mothers.’ ‘It was all just a terrible misunderstanding.’ ‘I’ll tell you exactly why it happened.’ Pirriwee Public’s annual school Trivia Night has ended in a shocking riot. A parent is dead. Was it murder, a tragic accident … or something else entirely? big little lies is a funny, heartbreaking, challenging story of ex-husbands and second wives, new friendships, old betrayals and schoolyard politics. ‘Let me be clear. This is not a circus. This is a murder investigation.’
“The ferocity that Ms Moriarty brings to scenes of masculine sadism really is shocking.” – The New York Times

What Alice Forgot
Pan Macmillan Australia, 2009; ISBN 9781405038577
When Alice Love surfaces from a beautiful dream to find she’s been injured in a gym, she knows that something is very wrong – she hates exercise. Alice’s first concern is her baby, she’s pregnant with her first child, and she’s desperate to see her husband, Nick, who she knows will be worried about her. But Alice isn’t pregnant. And Nick isn’t 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. Alice’s 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 she’s wearing fancy dress? And what’s 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 that’s ever happened to her.