Liane Moriarty
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Liane Moriarty is the author of nine internationally bestselling novels: Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotist's Love Story, The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, Truly Madly Guilty, Nine Perfect Strangers and Apples Never Fall. Her books have sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, including four million in Australia and New Zealand.
Screen rights have been sold to all of Liane Moriarty's novels. A TV series is in development for Three Wishes, Nicole Kidman has bought the rights to The Last Anniversary, film rights to What Alice Forgot have been pre-empted by Sony TriStar with Jennifer Aniston to star as Alice, and Heather Graham will star in an adaptation of The Hypnotist's Love Story. Apples Never Fall is now showing on BINGE.
The Husband's Secret was a No. 1 UK bestseller, an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and has been translated into more than forty languages. CBS Films has acquired the film rights with Blake Lively attached as lead actor and executive producer.
With Big Little Lies, Liane became the first Australian author to ever debut at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The novel was adapted for television by Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon who also star in the series, scripted by David E Kelley. The first season of the HBO series was nominated for sixteen, and won five, Emmy Awards, including 'Outstanding Limited Series' and 'Outstanding Lead Actress' for Nicole Kidman as Celeste.
Truly Madly Guilty also debuted at No. 1 in its first week of publication on the New York Times bestseller list and both Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty were No. 1 bestsellers in Australia. Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon have also optioned the film rights to Truly Madly Guilty.
Nine Perfect Strangers, also a New York Times Top Ten Bestseller, went straight to No. 1 in Australia and was the highest selling fiction title in 2018, the third consecutive year that Liane Moriarty was the highest selling fiction author overall. The novel was adapted into an Amazon Prime series by David E Kelley and stars Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Luke Evans and Samara Weaving.
Apples Never Fall was a No. 1 international bestseller and the bestselling book in Australia in 2021. Apples Never Fall premiered as a mini-series in March 2024 and stars Annette Bening and Sam Neill.
Liane has also written a children's trilogy: Nicola Berry and the Petrifying Problem with Princess Petronella, Nicola Berry and the Shocking Trouble on the Planet of Shobble and Nicola Berry and the Wicked War on the Planet of Whimsy.
You can find out more about Liane's books at her website www.lianemoriarty.com
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