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Nine Perfect Strangers

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by Liane Moriarty
Hardback
Publication Date: 18/09/2018
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From the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret and Big Little Lies.

The retreat at health and wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, and absorb the meditative ambience while enjoying their hot stone massages.

Watching over them is the resort's director, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired bodies and minds. These nine perfect strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.

With her wit, compassion and uncanny understanding of human behaviour, Liane Moriarty explores the depth of connection that can be formed when people are thrown together in... unconventional circumstances.

"She is...both hugely popular yet subversive...Nine Perfect Strangers shows Moriarty still taking risks with fiction...weighty issues writ with humour and a light touch. The hammer is still in the handbag, ready to smash a glass window or two." Lucy Sussex, The Australian

"Welcome to Tranquillum House where those Perfect Strangers ... have come to sort out their lives ...This gives Moriarty the opportunity to do what she does best, write about the human condition and connections that bind us all, with wicked humour, empathy and compassion - and a little bit of danger thrown in." Frances Whiting, Courier Mail

ISBN:
9781760783204
9781760783204
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
18-09-2018
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
512
Dimensions (mm):
241x162x44mm
Weight:
0.81kg
Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty is the Australian author of six internationally best-selling novels, Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotist's Love Story and the number 1 New York Times bestsellers, The Husband's Secret and Big Little Lies.
         
Film rights to What Alice Forgot have been pre-empted by Sony TriStar with Jennifer Aniston starring as Alice. 
           
The Husband's Secret has sold over three million copies worldwide, was a number 1 UK bestseller, an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and is set to be translated into over 40 languages. CBS Films has acquired the film rights. 
          
With the launch of her most recent novel, Big Little Lies, which has sold over one million copies in the US alone, Liane became the first Australian author to have a novel debut at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Rights have been acquired by Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon who will both take roles in the TV production, scripted by David E Kelley, with HBO winning the screen rights after a battle with Netflix. 
    
Writing as L.M. Moriarty, Liane has also written a children's book series, The Petrifying Problem with Princess Petronella, The Shocking Trouble on the Planet of Shobble and The Wicked War on the Planet of Whimsy
   
Liane lives in Sydney with her husband, son and daughter.

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‘In ten days, you will not be the person you are now.’

Ten days at a health and wellness retreat. Five of those days spent in silence. Bliss! But you can’t read or write during them. Hold on. What is this place?!

Masha, the director of Tranquillum House, is keen to implement her new protocol.

“Nine people were depending on her. Nine perfect strangers who would soon become like family.”

Stranger 1: Frances, formerly a bestselling romance novelist, has back pain, a bad cold and a paper cut. We hear about her paper cut a lot.

“I’m only temporarily tragic”

Stranger 2: Jessica is married to Ben and loves plastic surgery, maybe more than she loves Ben.

“She couldn’t shake the feeling that if she didn’t record this moment on her phone then it wasn’t really happening, it didn’t count, it wasn’t real life.”

Stranger 3: Ben is married to Jessica and loves his car, maybe more than he loves Jessica.

“He avoided looking at her. He was trying really hard to get over that.”

Stranger 4: Heather, a midwife, is at Tranquillum House with her husband, Napoleon, and daughter, Zoe.

“The rage hit her with the power and momentum of a contraction during active labour. There was no escaping it.”

Stranger 5: Napoleon, a schoolteacher in a disadvantaged area, loves to talk. He’s at Tranquillum House with his wife and daughter.

“But he wasn’t broken.”

Stranger 6: Zoe, who just broke up with her boyfriend, is at Tranquillum House with her parents.

“She tried so hard to be everything for them while they tried so hard to pretend that she wasn’t their only reason for living.”

Stranger 7: Tony runs a sports marketing consultancy and has brilliant tattoos.

“Tony would never forget the shocking clarity of the moment that followed.”

Stranger 8: Carmel has four children and is at Tranquillum House to lose weight.

‘I love everything about this place’

Stranger 9: Lars is a family lawyer.

‘I’m a health-retreat junkie. I indulge and atone, indulge and atone. It works for me.’

With a gorgeous location and mandatory smoothies six times a day, our health retreat participants are hopeful that they will go home changed. For the better. All of them have their issues but I suspected from early on that the ethereal Masha might have more than her share.

Reading this book felt like I was bingeing an entire season of a soap opera at once. I don’t mean that as criticism; soap operas are fun to binge. There’s so much drama. The plot lines are delightfully over the top while just barely staying within the realms of possibility.

I loved the drama of this book and I loved the personalities all bouncing off one another (after they were allowed to speak, that is). Although I laughed at the absurdity of some of the things that happened, nothing happened that I couldn’t imagine actually happening off the page. The entire read felt like a guilty pleasure.

New favourite word: toska.

“There was no adequate English word to describe the kind of anguished longing she felt for something she could not have and did not even want.”

Most of Liane’s books already live in my Kindle’s black hole of good intentions and I loved bingeing Big Little Lies. I’ve been planning to binge this series, too, but wanted to read the book first this time. Now that I’ve read it, I’m even more intrigued to watch Nicole Kidman as Masha and see how it all plays out outside of my imagination.

“This was not how it was supposed to go.”

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