
Truly Madly Guilty
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Once again Liane Moriarty uses her unique, razor-sharp observational skills to sift through the emerging fault lines of seemingly happy families.
If only they'd said no....
What if they hadn't gone? That's the question Clementine can't stop asking herself.
It was just a backyard barbeque. They didn't know their hosts that well. They were friends of friends. They could so easily have said no. But she and her husband, Sam, said yes, and now they can never change what they did and didn't do that beautiful winter's day.
Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One yapping dog. It's a normal weekend in the suburbs. What could possibly go wrong?
©2016 Liane Moriarty (P)2016 Bolinda
- Listening Length17 hours and 33 minutes
- Audible release date22 July 2016
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB01H0LELL0
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Listening Length | 17 hours and 33 minutes |
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Author | Liane Moriarty |
Narrator | Caroline Lee |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com.au Release Date | 22 July 2016 |
Publisher | Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B01H0LELL0 |
Best Sellers Rank | 12,547 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 108 in Psychological Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 223 in Romantic Comedy (Audible Books & Originals) 238 in Women Sleuth Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) |
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Reviewed in Australia on 9 August 2020
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This was a book club choice by a fellow member so I had to read it. It was just ok. Took me ages to get through it as I wasn't really invested in it. I found the constant teasing about the "thing" that happened at the bbq quite irritating and thought - this better be bloody good - no spoilers here but yes what happened met the requirement. However, I felt the characters were just a tad too 2 dimensional and some downright predictable. But, this is a Liane Moriarty story and ticked the boxes for this kind of novel. Definitely not her best offering but solid enough
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Reviewed in Australia on 8 April 2017
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Loved this instalment from Liane. She takes everyday situations and presents them in such a beautiful way that you can't help but become addicted and hungry for the next chapter. Relationships are her speciality. Reading her work I am always surprised that she articulates with such clarity what is in my mind and heart. This story is of a typical situation most of us can picture and may have been in. It leads to a simple accident that creates such drama. The couples and their secrets and personal frailties are all too real. It is a fantastic read and highly recommended.
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Reviewed in Australia on 26 September 2019
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As usual, Liane Moriarty kept me captivated all throughout this book. I just couldn’t stop reading. Her ability to articulate the various personalities with their specific idiosyncrasies and ways the characters processed their world is truly genius - as usual.
I love reading about her characters living in the city I grew up in too... very refreshing from the all too common americanised world.
This is the last book I’ve read of Liane’s and I can’t wait until she writes another.
Do yourself a favour and grab a cuppa, put your feet up and enjoy.
I love reading about her characters living in the city I grew up in too... very refreshing from the all too common americanised world.
This is the last book I’ve read of Liane’s and I can’t wait until she writes another.
Do yourself a favour and grab a cuppa, put your feet up and enjoy.
Reviewed in Australia on 18 November 2016
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I am sorry to disagree with other reviews. This book is a disappointment. It is difficult to read. It is, actually, a chore to read. The story lacks pace; it drags. This is my second attempt to read one of Moriarty's books; the first (The husband's secret) was so dull, I gave up after ten pages or so. I found the style annoying.
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Reviewed in Australia on 20 September 2018
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This book was easy to read and hard to put down. All of the central characters were likeable in their own way and I enjoyed getting to know them as the layers of their lives were exposed. I loved the ordinariness of the setting and story as it was the perfect foil for the complex emotions sitting just beneath the surface of all the central characters.
Reviewed in Australia on 16 February 2021
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I have read quite a few of Liane Moriarty's novels and, although I was not engaged with this novel at first, once I got into the story I couldn't put it down. I really liked the way Moriarty slowly revealed information about what happened at the BBQ, but also enjoyed how she explores the characters with their motivations and expectations in the context of life in suburbia. This is something she does so well!
Reviewed in Australia on 16 September 2018
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First Liane Moriarty Book I’ve read, but I will be reading more.
Found the relationships in the book very interesting, forced friendships, struggling marriages, failed action, or inaction.
However, events lead to awakenings that have great promise for the future,
Found the relationships in the book very interesting, forced friendships, struggling marriages, failed action, or inaction.
However, events lead to awakenings that have great promise for the future,
Reviewed in Australia on 31 August 2016
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Overall, I think this was a nice book, but not a great book. I did quite appreciate that the event itself was not portrayed as hugely dramatic (though it was traumatic), but still had such significant impacts on the lives of the characters. Also, the way development of a child is shown as the character of an adult is really impressive. However, I think the backstories for the characters were a bit polarised, particularly compared to the authors other books so I found it a bit difficult to relate to the characters in this book. Further, I don't think one of the characters was explored enough to explain his background (Vid), especially considering that he was one of the main characters. I also felt as though there were a few too many monologues, which made the middle a bit dry and had me flicking through a couple of pages to move the story along.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
*SPOILER ALERT* Not one of Moriarty's finest
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2019Verified Purchase
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
every.
single.
character.
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.
every.
single.
character.
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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5.0 out of 5 stars
Liane Moriarty is SOOOOOOOO GOOD!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2017Verified Purchase
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
3.0 out of 5 stars
A strong premise let down by contrived suspense
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 June 2017Verified Purchase
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
5.0 out of 5 stars
I read this in a day!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 July 2019Verified Purchase
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
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fantastic book - thoroughly recommended!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2017Verified Purchase
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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