There’s a reason you should write reviews the moment you’ve finished the book, because otherwise you’ll be sitting here faced with a blank page struggling to remember what the hell happened at that barbecue of doom anyway. But a trip home to the UK and dealing with two babies with jetlag (as well as my own, oh god never fly with babies) has meant this got pushed to the bottom of the queue. But I am determined to do this, damn it. And the three […]

This novel by Liane Moriarty was a good way to start 2017 and was my second foray into an interestingly structured Moriarty tale.  In Big Little Lies, the first novel of hers I read, the story circles around a death, the details which are not revealed until almost the end.  Similarly, the events of Truly Madly Guilty swirl around something catastrophic that happens at an afternoon barbeque, but what that event involves exactly takes most of the story to get to.  However, in both cases, […]