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    Truly Madly Guilty

    Written by Liane Moriarty

    Narrated by Caroline Lee

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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

    “Captivating, suspenseful…tantalizing.” —People Magazine

    The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband’s Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don’t appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it’s too late.

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJul 26, 2016
    ISBN9781427275837
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    Truly Madly Guilty
    Author

    Liane Moriarty

    Liane Moriarty is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies, The Husband's Secret, and What Alice Forgot, as well as The Hypnotist's Love Story, Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, and the Nicola Berry series for children. Liane lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children. www.lianemoriarty.com.au

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    • 4/5
      It is a good story exploring the human relationships, i.e. marriage, friendship & neighbors etc. It was a bit maddening sometime that the story was not linear and the back and forth felt a bit forced at time, but you will finally glimpsed of the event and every characters came to term with their life.
    • 4/5
      A neighborhood BBQ party planned at the last moment, everyone having fun then in blink of an eye an event takes place and now all involved are trying to recall their actions before and after. Another turn pager by Liane Moriarty.
    • 3/5
      I'm not really a fan of women's fiction, but the description of this book showed promise. Unfortunately, I thought that the writing was gimmicky and way too slow - the book felt twice as long as it was. The book is really one long tease to find out what happened at a barbecue attended by 3 married couples and the 3 young daughters of 2 of the couples. The narration skips back and forth in time among the days before the barbecue, the day of, and after the barbecue. Along the way marriages and friendships are tested and there are some minor secrets revealed. Domestic drama is really not my cup of tea, but I did manage to finish the book, probably because I could speed up the narration of the audiobook.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. I love Liane Moriarty. I love Caroline Lee.

      Love love love love love. xo
    • 5/5
      Clementine, her husband Sam and their children Holly and Ruby are invited along with their friends Erika and Oliver to a barbecue hosted by Vid and Tiffany. Things don't go as planned and something happens. I had previously read The Husbands Secret which I really enjoyed. This book I also enjoyed very much.The story focuses on three sets of people and what happens at the barbecue. There are other issues in the book such as IVF and hoarding. For me though it was the barbecue. Each chapter left me wanting to know more. I really wanted to know what happened but was going to find out early on. The chapters left me hanging on and wanting to turn the pages, kindle fashion, to finally see what happened.I find Liane Moriarty a great story teller and have enjoyed what I hsve read so far. What I do enjoy is that at the end of the book there are little nuggets as to what really happened and it all then becomes clear. I especially liked what Vid did and it made me smile.I will read more by LM in the very near future.Thank you to the publisher via Netgalley for sending me this book for review.
    • 4/5
      I like Liane Moriarty's books. The suspense generated in the book was a bit unnatural, but it still worked. Enjoyed the themes surrounding guilt.
    • 5/5
      The characters are so vivid and the story so real that you feel as though you know them. I felt sad when it ended, as though I had lost a friend. I highly recommend all Liane Moriarty’s novels.
    • 2/5
      I was on a Liane Moriarty kick after loving Big Little Lies. This one wasn’t as suspenseful or compelling as some of her others, but the writing was, as usual, excellently done.
    • 5/5
      Great to read a good book set in Australia. A good story well told that keeps you turning the pages to find out about the BBQ. If you like Liane's other book you will like this one too. She is great at weaving stories together and tying up all the loose threads neatly at the end. Have read four of her books now and she is great storyteller.
    • 4/5
      I like Liane Moriarty. This is the fourth of her novels I've read in the past few years. She develops characters so well! What I especially like about her writing is that the plot comes to a satisfying conclusion, but the story doesn't. I feel like Oliver, Erika, Clementine, Sam, Tiffany and Vid will carry on...that is how amazing Ms. Moriarty is at developing characters.(This one was a bit slow in revealing just what happened...but that's a minor quibble)
    • 3/5
      I had trouble getting into this one... I love her books, but not this one.
    • 3/5
      Based on a copy provided by NetGalley.

      It's a good, compelling story that made me really want to find out what happened at that barbecue. But after I found out, I sort of disengaged. I don't know if that's the fault of the story or the fault of the reader. I don't typically read this type of book, and there were no dragons or mysterious quests, so.... That being said, I can see why people enjoy Liane Moriarty. She's really got a handle on how to write a page-turner.
    • 3/5
      My least favourite of all of her books.
    • 4/5
      Great story, well written, I cared about the characters.
    • 3/5
      2.89 stars
      Something bad happens at a BBQ.
      Unfortunately it takes a really long time to find out what it was, and in that time I started to lose interest in what it might could be...

      Not a terrible book, but definitely not my favorite one by Liane Moriarty.
    • 4/5
      Really enjoy Liane Moriarty's books. I felt the ending was a bit abrupt.
    • 4/5
      I listened to this as an audio book and I felt like I could have read it faster. I enjoyed the story, although at times I find myself going- Just get to what happened at the damn barbecue. Again, I think that was a byproduct of listening to what is a rather long book. This was only my 3rd audiobook ever but 17 hours seems pretty long The narration was nice and I found her voice soothing which probably kept me going and not just giving up and going to read the book.

      As far as the actual book itself- it was a great story and I did love weaving in and out of their lives and backstory ( although I struggled at times with keeping up).
    • 4/5
      This book is told in two time periods. It starts by letting us know that something happened in the recent past but we're not told what. Gradually we learn that when the six friends got together a major incident occurred but what was it.I wasn't sure at first but was gradually drawn in to discover what happened and how each person was involved.Interwoven are several issues such as childlessness and hoarding, both of which are treated sensitivily.When we learn what happened we then have to deal with the fall out. Another good read from the author which I recommend.
    • 2/5
      The whole premise of Liane Moriarty's "Truly Madly Guilty" really didn't work for me -- which means the book really didn't work for me either. I would have understood the weight of the guilt on her characters better if the big picnic event had a more dire outcome than it did. As it was the event was underwhelming and the characters' reactions were all so over the top. I feel like Moriarty made an easy choice instead of the braver one for this novel, leaving a weak foundation for the rest of the story.
    • 3/5
      This was a very difficult book to read as it seemed to carry needlessly. The beginning of the book catches your interest and provides a mysterious secret yet to be revealed. It was the only thing that kept me reading this novel. The story unfolds on an alternate time line, going from present to past and viewed from several characters. This technique works well with some novels but in this case it just added to the confusion. Painfully, the story drags on until about half way through the book when the "secret" is finally revealed. Not to dismiss the gravity of the "secret" but it hardly warranted the build up it received. I'm left wondering what the theme or lesson could be learned from this book. I guess on a stretch I would say there was an attempt describe friendships that span over lifetimes. How individual choices have impact on the nourishment or stagnation of the connection.
    • 4/5
      Moriarty has a talent for writing about ordinary people, living ordinary lives, and dealing with ordinary issues in their lives, and yet making it engaging and entertaining. The characters are well-rendered and real, and we care about them. It's an interesting exploration into how a relatively common (although awful) incident can completely change peoples' lives and their relationships with each other.
    • 5/5
      The Short of It:What could go wrong at a barbecue? Plenty.The Rest of It:This is the second Moriarty book I’ve read, the first being Big Little Lies. As much as I liked Big Little Lies, I think I enjoyed Truly Madly Guilty a bit more.Both books open with the knowledge that something bad has happened. In this book, this “incident” takes place at a neighborhood barbecue. Just your everyday, neighborhood barbecue with a few neighbors and a couple of mutual friends. As the story unfolds, the chapters count the reader down to the event itself. This method of storytelling creates a lot of tension in the best way possible. I could not turn those pages fast enough and the book stands at 560 pages so that’s telling you something.The story mostly focuses on three couples, Erika and Oliver, Clementine and Sam, and Tiffany and Vid. These couples are vastly different from one another. Their views on marriage, children and social gatherings are flaunted for all to see as the tension builds between them. All presented in the most delicious, dishy way. Erika and Clementine were tossed together as kids but do they even like one another? Vid and Tiffany are over-the-top with their lifestyle and a bit flashy but what harm could a little barbecue cause? It’s just a meal among friends. Clementine and Sam have their own issues to deal with so why are they always roped into other people’s problems?The storytelling feels so personal. Almost voyeuristic. When the details of the incident are finally revealed to the reader, you immediately wonder how they will survive it. How will each couple deal with the information they have in front of them? The not-knowing makes it even more of a page-turner.Friends, this was a good one. Plenty of tension, good story, suspenseful without being unrealistic and characters who come full circle. This is one of those complete package reads. For me, a perfect read.For more reviews, visit my blog: Book Chatter.
    • 5/5
      Another AMAZING book by Liane Moriarty!! I just love how she writes and is able to keep me interested although she always reveals just a small morsel of the main plot a little at a time. She always addresses different topics that make you think what would I do in this situation? I love when I can read a book a take something away from it!
    • 3/5
      Clementine and Erika have been best friends since childhood. Clementine, her husband Sam, and their two children, Ruby and Holly, attend a backyard BBQ at the home of Erika and her husband Oliver's next door neighbors, Vid and Tiffany. Something happens at that BBQ that changes everyone's life forever. The book is written in such a way as to conceal exactly what happened at the BBQ until nearly three-quarters through the book. The narrative alternates between the present day and "the day of the BBQ", and is told from alternating povs of the various characters.I read this in early April, when I was extremely distracted by the covid virus, and it was just the sort of book I needed. Something major has happened which has affected all the characters, everyone knew what it was except me, the reader, and I needed to find out what it was. This was the perfect tease to keep someone like me tearing through the pages. If you've ever read anything by Liane Moriarty (I've only read one other, Big Little Lies), her books seem to be well-plotted, easy to read, and with well-drawn characters.Recommended.3 stars
    • 5/5
      I’ve been on a bit of a run of Liane Moriarty novels just recently, and although it took me a bit longer to get into this one, it ended up every bit as good as all the others. There is a single dramatic incident at the book’s heart which, naturally, we are not told the nature of until close to the end. What I found particularly fascinating was the way the narrative breezily follows the characters after this event just as much as before, without needing to explain what went on, and the way they are essentially still the same characters in the same relationships as before, nobody has died, nothing seems to have changed, and yet at the same time everything about their relationships with one other has changed. It is perplexing. What could have happened?And of course each time the narrative skates tantalisingly close to those crucial events it then glides effortlessly over them, like one of those Curling players who are frantically sweeping away and still manage to step over the stones already in the house. Breathtaking insouciance.One of the themes within this novel that I particularly liked was the focus on socially awkward people. I love it when authors demonstrate that they “get it”. When Oliver is tempted to follow up his unexpected witticism at the party and his wife is silently willing him not to. That type of getting it. The attention to detail, the twists and turns and surprises, the saving of secrets until the reader is properly desperate to know what happened, the showing not telling, all make this a really great read.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable read with the usual LM twists and turns. Could be considered a little slow because you have to wait and see what happens at the BBQ.
    • 5/5
      WOW! I started this one and really thought I would put it aside.. but I powered on!! I'm so glad I did!! Quirky characters - at first they seemed a bit annoying... but what a great story- when they FINALLY got to the BBQ the story just kept unfolding. GREAT, FAST READ!
    • 4/5
      Every chapter a cliffhanger. Makes u turn the pages even faster.
    • 2/5
      I really need to stop reading these books.
    • 1/5
      REALLY not my thing. Her books are totally hit or miss for me. I loved Big Little Lies, but this book was just NOT my cup of tea. There are so many books out there - I'd suggest reading something else.