Liane Moriarty, The New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, offers your book club Apples Never Fall: a novel about marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.

Book Summary:

It’s always reassuring when a successful figure gets a late start to their career. Born in 1966 in Sydney, Australia, Liane Moriarty didn’t publish her debut, Three Wishes, until 2003. Since then, HBO has adapted Big Little Lies, and Nine Perfect Strangers is now a series on Hulu. Moriarty’s become a regular on The New York Times bestseller list. She’s also close friends with Reese Witherspoon.

Now, in Apples Never Fall, old grievances and childhood injustices from the Delaney family erupt into the present, with wild consequences.

If you’ve already filled in the “far from the tree” that’s missing from Apples Never Fall’s title, you’re cleverer than I was. So let’s start there, with the theme of family, and ask a key discussion question for this book:

What must a family never do, if it wants to survive, according to the rules of Apples Never Fall?

Go through the Apples Never Fall discussion questions below to help you warm up for that one. And enjoy Apples Never Fall’s sensual and vivid writing!

Apples Never Fall

Apples Never Fall Book Club Questions PDF