Well, I’ve now read all of Australian author Liane Moriarty’s books–this was the earliest. I love her pithy prose, humorous lovable characters, and frivolity around people behaving badly. All of her books are worth picking up but my favourites of hers are still The Husband’s Secret and Big Little Lies (which was also a star studded TV series). Although this wasn’t her best book (she definitely gets better in later novels), it was a nice mindless distraction from a crucial election and a pandemic still raging.
This book focuses on a set of triplets, two identical and one fraternal, all girls. I liked the way Moriarty sets up this novel, with a view of these triplets from the inside and the outside. Told from the perspective of spectators, the prologue features a fight between the sisters in a restaurant that ends with a fork protruding from the pregnant sister’s belly and another crumpled and unconscious on the floor. It certainly made me curious about these women right from the start! Also, interspersed throughout the book, are entertaining short vignettes of people observing the triplets, and commenting on the mayhem.
From the author: “Whenever I meet a twin I interrogate them with inane, unanswerable questions (eg. “But what’s it like being you?”) I am also the eldest of five girls, and consider myself a leading expert on the subject of sisters. So it wasn’t all that surprising when my first novel turned out to be a story about triplet sisters.”
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