Apples Never Fall

by Liane Moriarty

It was just a plate, her father kept saying to Christina. He never understood what that plate represented: Disrespect. Disregard. Contempt.

The man picked up a pair of glasses on his bedside table and put them on. Now he looked like Harry bloody Potter. How dare he look like Harry bloody Potter? Harry Potter would never hit a woman.

any marriage of that many years has multiple motives for murder. Every police officer and hairdresser knows that.

“What are you doing?” Joy asked him. “Holding my balloon,” said Stan.

Each time she fell out of love with him, he saw it happen and waited it out.