![]() ![]() She gives each character enough baggage for a world tour, even though this is just an afternoon in a suburban backyard. The author does her damnedest to make the events seem colossally important. ‘‘Truly Madly Guilty’’ unfolds on a much smaller scale: It’s about the day of a terrible, terrible barbecue, and features only a small group of characters saddled with various pathologies. ![]() It also had a full panoply of bitchy parents and nice ones. ![]() Her very popular ‘‘Big Little Lies’’ focused on a terrible, terrible night that Moriarty used as a tease, by endlessly dropping in glimpses of it and then cutting away. This Australian author’s winning formula always relies on such tactics. And you need to get through endless hinting, foreshadowing, stalling and chapters that end with loud noises even to find out what they are. Liane Moriarty usually packs her books with dishier secrets than those that give ‘‘Truly Madly Guilty’’ its title. ![]()
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