5/13/2023 0 Comments Truly madly guilty novel![]() ![]() Crucially, the nature of the actual event is initially withheld from the reader, a device Moriarty successfully employed in Big Little Lies. The three couples who attend the barbecue bemoan the role they played that day and wish – how they wish – they never went in the first place. The focus of Truly Madly Guilty is a Sunday afternoon barbecue in the posh suburbs where something happens – something really bad. But having suggested Trollope, Moriarty offers something more. Like Trollope, Moriarty is concerned with the texture and themes of everyday life. The closest writer I can compare her to is Joanna Trollope. ![]() Moriarty's preoccupations are more with the subterranean complications of those marriages. The three couples at the centre of the story have established marriages where each partner knows their well-rehearsed lines. Moriarty certainly isn't writing conventional romances. ![]()
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