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This is the fourth year the Wagga Wagga City Library has run One Book One Wagga.
A massive book club that runs across our entire city.
This year’s novel is Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty.
Truly Madly Guilty won the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, and has been short listed for the Australian Indie Book Awards.
Moriarty’s novels Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty reached number one on the New York Times (NYT) bestseller list in their first week of publication, the first time this has been achieved by an Australian author.
During 2014 three of Liane’s novels appeared simultaneously on the NYT bestseller list, making her one of the few authors in the world to have achieved this feat.
Her books have been read by more than six million people worldwide, including one million in Australia and her novels have been translated into 39 languages.
Moriarty is a consummate writer about suburban Sydney-siders.
There is a strong sense of place, and the characters are real; frustrating, amusing and familiar.
Truly Madly Guilty broadly explores the themes of marriage, friendship and parenthood.
Dianne Dempsey, in her review for the Sydney Morning Herald reflected on Truly Madly Guilty, “This is a world we understand. And it can be fraught, despite the benefits of education and money, which to a large degree explains the universality of Moriarty's writing.”
Sydney is very much a character within the novel as is a cello, and they both interact with other characters in the novel in a visceral way.
Synopsis: Clementine is haunted by regret. It was just a barbecue. They didn't even 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 Sunday afternoon.
Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon have an option on the film rights to the novel, following their successful adaption of Moriarty’s earlier novel Big Little Lies, which premiered on Australian small screens on Monday of this week.
Moriarty is a full-time author. She lives in Sydney with her husband, son and daughter. When she’s not writing she can be found reading, demanding coffee, clutching her forehead and occasionally falling to her knees on the soccer field sidelines (the grief, the joy, the drama!).
Moriarty also enjoys skiing like she is 30 years younger than she is, recovering from skiing injuries and doing the school run.
She can be found walking around the block to avoid writer’s block, talking to old friends about getting old, listening to her children explain the wonders of MineCraft, watching TV series far too late into the night and reading, which has already been mentioned, but deserves a second mention.
Copies of Truly Madly Guilty are available for loan now from Wagga City Library.
The One Book One Wagga Gala Dinner with author Liane Moriarty will be held on May 19 at the RSL Club. Bookings can be made through the Commercial Club on 6921 3012.
The Wagga Wagga City Library would like to acknowledge our One Book One Wagga partners; the Friends of the Wagga Wagga City Library and the Wagga RSL for their ongoing support.