Truly Madly Guilty
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3.9 • 2.3K Ratings
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Publisher Description
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES, now an HBO series.
Winner of Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction
“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.
Entertainment Weekly's “Best Beach Bet”
A USA Today Hot Books for Summer Selection
A Miami Herald Summer Reads Pick
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
One disastrous BBQ upends the lives of three suburban Sydney families. Liane Moriarty (The Husband’s Secret, Big Little Lies) has a gift for mixing high drama and biting humor—and highlighting the absurd levels of investment and stress involved in modern domesticity. There are no heroes or villains in Truly Madly Guilty. But this entertaining pageturner seeks to explore the ripple effects of trauma and how and why bad things happen to good people.
Customer Reviews
Good drama for a slow read
Lovely story telling . I felt it was best to take a whole week to read this one (slowly) to really develop the characters In my mind.
Love Moriarty, but this one dragged on too much
I have devoured Moriarty’s other books, but I found myself flipping pages just to finish it. It didn’t grab me like her others for some reason. It was like I had to finish it, but couldn’t wait until it was over. Most of the characters were unlikable for different reasons.
Long
Ok story but could’ve been 300 pages shorter