Apples Never Fall, Liane Moriarty
Apples Never Fall, Liane Moriarty
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Apples Never Fall

Bestseller

Author: Liane Moriarty

Narrator: Caroline Lee

Unabridged: 18 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/14/2021


Synopsis

2021 AudioFile Best Audiobooks
2021 Washington Post Best Books of the Year

From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, an audiobook that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.

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.

The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They’re killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after 50 years of marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are Stan and Joy so miserable?

The four Delaney children—Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke—were tennis stars in their own right, yet as their father will tell you, none of them had what it took to go all the way. But that’s okay, now that they’re all successful grown-ups and there is the wonderful possibility of grandchildren on the horizon.

One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy’s door, bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend. The Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. If only that was all she wanted.

Later, when Joy goes missing, and Savannah is nowhere to be found, the police question the one person who remains: Stan. But for someone who claims to be innocent, he, like many spouses, seems to have a lot to hide. Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure—but as the two sides square off against each other in perhaps their biggest match ever, all of the Delaneys will start to reexamine their shared family history in a very new light.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

About Liane Moriarty

Born in November of 1966, Liane Moriarty was a child who always loved to read.

Her career began in advertising and marketing. She became quite corporate for a while and wore suits and worried a lot about the size of her office. She eventually left her position as marketing manager of a legal publishing company to run her own business called “The Little Ad Agency”. After that she worked as a freelance advertising copywriter, writing everything from websites and TV commercials to the back of the Sultana Bran box.

After finding out that her sister (author Jaclyn Moriarty) was about to have one of her own novels published, Liane rushed to the computer and wrote a children’s book called The Animal Olympics, which went on to be enthusiastically rejected by every publisher in Australia.

She calmed down and enrolled in a Master’s degree at Macquarie University in Sydney. As part of that degree, she wrote her first novel, Three Wishes. Since then she has written five more novels for adults, The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotists Love Story, The Husband's Secret and most recently Big Little Lies.

In August 2013 Liane’s fifth novel The Husband’s Secret was released in the US and within two weeks had climbed the charts to become a #1 New York Times Bestseller.

Liane's latest novel Big Little Lies was published in July 2014 and debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list, making Liane the first Australian author to have a novel debut in the top spot in the US. Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon snapped up the film and television rights.

Liane is now a full-time author. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two small children who like to climb all over her while she tries to write helpfully smashing their fists against the keyboard and suggesting she might like to watch the Wiggles instead.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Yun on December 29, 2021

I've got to hand it to Liane Moriarty. Just when I think I've seen it all, she comes along and completely surprises me with this sparkling and startling gem of a tale. Joy Delaney, beloved wife and mother of four, has disappeared. Her adult children are rightfully aghast, but they're reluctant to rep......more

Goodreads review by Regina on September 20, 2021

Do you like apples? Well I got my favorite author back. How do you like them apples? My relationship with Liane Moriarty has felt a little one-sided in recent years. I became smitten with her when I read The Husband’s Secret but really fell hard for Big Little Lies. I went back and read most of her......more

Goodreads review by Holly on October 04, 2021

2.5 STARS / I was going to give it a 3, but the end ruined it Meh Read 467 pages and also listened to much of it... *Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins *Unabridged Audiobook *Narrated by: Caroline Lee This was a long time to invest in characters and a story. What started as a mystery of a missing mother became a b......more

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on August 18, 2024

Jokes 5/5, Storytelling 2/5, Editing 1/5 Stan and Joy have been married FOREVER and have recently retired from their Tennis School. As boredom sets in, they hear a knock on the door late one night. A mysterious girl is on their porch. Then, Joy goes missing. What happened to Joy? Is she alive or dead......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on March 07, 2022

The Delaney family saga’s entire story truly matches with proverbial saying: apple never falls from the tree! This is well written, interesting reading written by one of my all time favorite author’s dry and dark sense of witty humor ! There’s big mystery about a mother’s abrupt, sudden disappearan......more


Quotes

"Audiobook narrator Caroline Lee’s voice is an irresistible, visceral joy; like the best audiobook narrators, her delivery is endlessly malleable, shifting nimbly across accent, register and tone to create a sense that one is inside the story rather than peering in from the outside." -- Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times

"[Lee] adds a crisp warmth that makes for an easy and absorbing listen."- Alan Rosenberg, The Providence Journal

"Australian narrator Caroline Lee is an amazing performer who digs so deeply into her characters' personas that listeners will become addicted to each witty, insightful, and gutsy one." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner

"With the publication of her new novel, "Apples Never Fall", author Liane Morarty has penned another well crafted novel of drama and suspense. Now skillfully and dramatically narrated by Caroline Lee in a complete and unabridged audio book edition from Macmillan Audio, "Apples Never Fall" is highly recommended for personal and community library audio book collections." - Midwest Book Review

"Australian actor Caroline Lee, a talented narrator of many of Moriarty’s novels, delivers this one with her customary Aussie panache and pronunciation, both of which stick in your brain long after you’ve finished listening." - Washington Post


Awards

  • AudioFile Best Audiobooks
  • Washington Post Best Books of the Year