At one point Pam gives a dinner party speech that made me (and the book's characters) quite uncomfortable.

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While the reader gets a slight glimmer of hope for our poor trod upon Cat, it was not enough to make up for all she went through. I will admit that Truly Madly Guilty did test my patience a bit, because the structure builds up to a dramatic incident at a barbecue, and it takes us half the book to learn what happened that day. Big Little Lies is now an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning HBO series, produced by and starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon.We spend 250 pages reading characters saying to themselves and to each other, “If only I hadn’t gone to that barbecue” or “Nothing’s been the same since that barbecue.

THREE WISHES by Liane Moriarty - Publishers Weekly THREE WISHES by Liane Moriarty - Publishers Weekly

Though Clementine and Sam's lives are somewhat fraught - with two small kids, two careers, and Clementine's constant fretting about auditions - the couple meanders along quite happily. Two months later, it won’t stop raining, and Clementine and Sam can’t stop asking themselves the question: What if we hadn’t gone? Liane Moriarty is a popular best-selling author and her latest book, Truly Madly Guilty, garnered a lot of hype and many good reviews. She’d cut the alternating chapters off at odd points in an attempt to build in mini-cliffhangers, so you never knew what chapter would eventually reveal the big secret.A professional hypnotherapist, Ellen O’Farrell works from the beachfront home she inherited from her grandparents.