Book info

• Title Truly Madly Guilty
• Author Liane Moriarty
• Year 2016
• Genre Contemporary

Six responsible adults. One day that changes everything. 'This is a story which begins with a barbecue in the suburbs...' In just one evening, a lifelong friendship will be in tatters, a marriage on the rocks and an innocent bystander dead. In just one evening, six lives will change for ever.

Thoughts

All the Liane Moriarty books I’ve read so far have been a real treat - that attention to detail and incredible character work layered on intriguing plots can only end up in a good result. I do think this one is weaker than some of the recent reads, though, and mostly because of the big ‘twist’. It’s so built up and takes so long to be revealed that it ends up being disappointing (given the context, this seems like the wrong word but just in terms of pacing!) and something that surely shouldn’t have caused the ripples that it did. However, the way it all unwinds is interesting, I just think it needed to come earlier in the book to live more in the after than in the before.

Rating: 3 / 5