The book’s central themes are obligation and guilt, and these are represented through a number of the relationships but centrally through the complicated friendship between Erika and Clementine. Set in Sydney, Truly Madly Guilty covers the period before, during and after a Sunday afternoon barbecue and follows the consequences of that event on the three couples involved and their children (and yes, in summary the plot may remind you of The Slap but rest assured this is its own unique story). All I can say is thank goodness I did because Moriarty is one of those rare novelists who writes for a wide audience but with a nuance and depth that sets her stories well above the ordinary. It is, however, sometimes easy to dismiss the popular and if it hadn’t been for the enthusiastic tweeting of a former colleague while they were reading an earlier Moriarty novel, Big Little Lies, I might not have been encouraged to give this writer a try. Australian writer Liane Moriarty’s success is phenomenal, with six international best-selling novels, translation into 39 languages and an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon currently in production.
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