Everything seems, on the surface, to be quite normal, until one day Joy disappears without a trace, leaving behind her phone. Their four children may not have followed in their footsteps to become tennis pros, but they each have their own jobs, dramas, and successes. Stan and Joy Delaney have been married for fifty years, and they’ve just recently sold their very successful tennis training business and are settling into retirement. If your book club has chosen Moriarty’s latest novel, read on for an Apples Never Fall book club questions, reading guide, and more! Apples Never Fall Book Summary Her books Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers are book club favorites that have gone on to become hit TV shows, and her latest novel is likely to be just as popular with readers as it expertly interrogates what it means to be successful and how different members of the same family can have vastly different understandings of their history. The examination of a family in a spiral of destruction is car crash TV and compelling in many ways but there was just something missing that I can’t put my finger on.Liane Moriarty is known for her character-driven novels that propose a tantalizing “what if?” to readers. There was a lot of introspection about marriage and family of course but if you go around and around without changing direction, you’re just going to end up at the same place. However, if felt like a long time getting there.
I wanted to know what happened to the mum and who that strange women at the house was. If it’s weird and awful family dynamics you’re after, then you have come to the right place. Then, you have to wonder just what those grown up children are like when you take a closer look at them. I mean, his wife is missing and a strange woman is in the house. To confuse the issue, the father seems to be taking this in his stride. A woman comes to the house and claims to be a victim of domestic abuse so is invited to stay there. The mum leaves the home and seemingly disappears. However ,what do you do when you’ve been so active and busy for so many years and your marriage of 50 years is so linked to the tennis that has kept them all bonded.
With four adult children all out in the world, they now want to retire. The parents of the family own a successful tennis academy.
It all seems nice and idyllic from the outside but is it? Well, this is a family drama by Liane Moriarty so what’s your guess? Well, this family is full of rotten apples. A bad apple never falls far from the tree, they say. The title of this book lets you now that there is going to be a family drama at its core.
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