Liane Moriarty

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Australia

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http://www.lianemoriarty.com

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Liane was born on a beautiful November day in 1966 in Sydney. A few hours after she was born, she smiled directly at her father through the nursery glass window, which is remarkable, seeing as most babies can’t even focus their eyes at that age.

Her first word was ‘glug’. This was faithfully recorded in the baby book kept by her mother. (As the eldest of six children, Liane was the only one to get a baby book so she likes to refer to it often.)

As a child, she loved to read, so much so that school friends would cruelly hide their books when she came to play. She still doesn’t know how to go to sleep at night without first reading a novel for a very long time in a very hot bath.

She can’t remember the first story she ever wrote, but she does re...more Liane was born on a beautiful November day in 1966 in Sydney. A few hours after she was born, she smiled directly at her father through the nursery glass window, which is remarkable, seeing as most babies can’t even focus their eyes at that age.

Her first word was ‘glug’. This was faithfully recorded in the baby book kept by her mother. (As the eldest of six children, Liane was the only one to get a baby book so she likes to refer to it often.)

As a child, she loved to read, so much so that school friends would cruelly hide their books when she came to play. She still doesn’t know how to go to sleep at night without first reading a novel for a very long time in a very hot bath.

She can’t remember the first story she ever wrote, but she does remember her first publishing deal. Her father ‘commissioned’ her to write a novel for him and paid her an advance of $1.00. She wrote a three volume epic called, ‘The Mystery of Dead Man’s Island’

After leaving school, Liane began a career in advertising and marketing. She became quite corporate for a while and wore suits and worried a lot about the size of her office. She eventually left her position as marketing manager of a legal publishing company to run her own (not especially successful) business called The Little Ad Agency. After that she worked as (a more successful, thankfully) freelance advertising copywriter, writing everything from websites and TV commercials to the back of the Sultana Bran box.

She also wrote short stories and many first chapters of novels that didn’t go any further. The problem was that she didn’t actually believe that real people had novels published. Then one day she found out that they did, when her younger sister Jaclyn Moriarty called to say that her (brilliant, hilarious, award-winning) novel, Feeling Sorry for Celia was about to be published.

In a fever of sibling rivalry, Liane rushed to the computer and wrote a children’s book called The Animal Olympics, which went on to be enthusiastically rejected by every publisher in Australia.

She calmed down and enrolled in a Masters degree at Macquarie University in Sydney. As part of that degree, she wrote her first novel, Three Wishes. It was accepted by the lovely people at Pan Macmillan and went on to be published around the world. (Her latest books are published by the equally lovely people at Penguin in both the US and the UK)

Since then she has written two more novels for adults, as well as a series of books for children.

Liane is now a full-time author. She lives in Sydney with her husband, her new baby daughter Anna, and her son George, who likes to sit on her lap while she works, helpfully smashing his fist against the keyboard and suggesting that she might prefer to be watching the Wiggles instead.

Once upon a time she went heli-skiing and skydiving* and scuba diving. These days she goes to the park and ‘Gymbaroo’ and sings ‘I’m a Little Cuckoo Clock’ at swimming lessons. She has discovered that the adrenaline burst you experience from jumping out of a plane is remarkably similar to the one you get when your toddler makes a run for it in a busy car park (less)

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Nicola's wonderful new novel, available now!

Thirty-one years ago, in the middle of a dark, stormy night, my father woke me up with the words, "It's time."

Well, he probably didn't say, "It's time", who knows what he said? It was thirty-one years ago! June, 1981. We had really bad haircuts but proper music

Also, my mother has just confirmed that it wasn't stormy, but it was 'freezing cold'. She a...

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Books by Liane Moriarty

Average rating: 3.87 · 7,455 ratings · 1,501 reviews · 10 distinct works

	What Alice Forgot 3.91 avg rating — 6,244 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Three Wishes 3.72 avg rating — 631 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Last Anniversary 3.56 avg rating — 428 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Hypnotist's Love Story 3.92 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Space Brigade And The Petrifying Problem With Princess Petronella 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Three Wishes and The Last Anniversary 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	War on Whimsy by Liane Moriarty, Shannon Bonatakis (Illustrator) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Shobble Secret by Liane Moriarty, Shannon Bonatakis (Illustrator) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	Earthling Ambassador by Liane Moriarty, Shannon Bonatakis (Illustrator) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Stor ståhei 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	My rating:

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“Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves it's own word.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

tags: it-s-called-commitment

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“Each memory, good and bad, was another invisible thread that bound them together...It was as simple and complicated as that. Love after children, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best...-well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

tags: romantically-honest

5 people liked it

“We were so happy.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

tags: happiness

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Which of the following would you like to have as the August Ladies' Choice Group Read?

Darkness, My Old Friend: A Novel by Lisa Unger

5 votes, 22.7%

The Ridge by Michael Koryta

5 votes, 22.7%

A Painted House by John Grisham

4 votes, 18.2%

Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann

2 votes, 9.1%

Unravelled by Robyn Harding

2 votes, 9.1%

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

2 votes, 9.1%

The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni

1 vote, 4.5%

The Abduction by Mark Gimenez

1 vote, 4.5%

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

0 votes, 0.0%

Just Jane by Nancy Moser

0 votes, 0.0%

22 total votes

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