Moriarty is brilliant at her craft, all the time cranking up the suspense.Ĭlementine is so stricken by the incident she takes time off from her music to give public talks at libraries about how we can never be too careful. The chapters take us to the months, days, hours, and seconds even, before and after the incident. 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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