episode 38
“Reading Life Through Liane’s Lens”
with Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty (World Renowned NY Times Best Selling Author) @lianemoriarty_official
There is nothing quite like reading a book you can’t put down. The journey a story can take you on, the reflections you have when you immerse yourself in the characters shoes, the visceral feeling that occurs at a plot twist, and the satisfied yet sombre feeling you’re left with when it’s over. Liane Moriarty has done that for millions of people all around the world. More than 20 million copies of her books sold worldwide, more than 4 million copies in Australia alone. 9 books on the NY Times Best Sellers list, with 4 of them debuting at #1. It’s safe to say Liane’s ability to use her imagination to write enthralling stories that creates a rollercoaster ride in reading form, is a unique gift that is intriguing for those that don’t have the same ability. So, when given the opportunity to sit down with Liane, it’s a chance at insight into what makes her who she is. It’s clear that Liane’s lens on life is flourished with detail capturing the brightness of first glance, but also not looking away when it comes to the darkness of our shadows. So, we ask the question has Liane always seen life through that lens? Or is it a lens that enhanced as her writing has grown strength? And how do you continue to focus on ideas that grow to stories, and not let the worlds fascination distract or detract from writing them?
“I’ve thought a lot about my own mortality, so that’s why I was looking at each of the passengers around me and I was thinking ‘so will you be the person that makes it to 100?”
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READ LIANE’S BOOKS
If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do differently?
It all begins on a flight from Hobart to Sydney. The flight will be smooth. It will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off the plane. But almost all of them will be changed forever.
The Delaney family love one another dearly—it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other…
If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.
Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out...
If only they'd said no… Clementine is haunted by regret. It was just a barbeque. 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.
Parents behaving badly… a tragic accident… or murder? What isn't in doubt is that someone is dead.
How well do you know your husband?
Cecilia Fitzpatrick, devoted mother, successful Tupperware business owner and efficient P&C President, has found a letter from her husband:
'For my wife, Cecilia Fitzpatrick, to be opened only in the event of my death.'
Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child.
So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over — she’s getting divorced, she has three kids and she’s actually 39 years old.
As a hypnotherapist, Ellen O'Farrell is fascinated by what makes people tick. So when she falls in love with Patrick, the fact that he has a stalker doesn't faze her in the slightest. If anything it intrigues her, and the more she hears about Saskia, the more she wants to meet this woman. But what she doesn't know is that they've already met.
Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single ever since.
Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Together, laughter, drama, and mayhem seem to follow them. But apart, each is dealing with her own share of ups and downs.
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WATCH LIANE’S BOOKS ADAPTATIONS
Apples Never Fall
TV Mini Series. 2024. 7 episodes.
Nine Perfect Strangers
TV Series. based on the book by. 2021. 8 episodes.
Big Little Lies
TV Series. based on the novel by. 2017–2019. 2 Seasons and a total of 14 episodes.
To be released on Binge: ‘The Last Anniversary’