In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty takes on the foundations of our lives: marriage, sex, parenthood, and friendship. 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? Having Tiffany and Vid’s larger than life personalities there will be a welcome respite. But theirs is a complicated relationship, so when Erika mentions a last minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors, Tiffany and Vid, Clementine and Sam don’t hesitate. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. If there’s anything they can count on, it’s each other.Ĭlementine and Erika are each other’s oldest friends. Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. In addition, their parenting styles are conflicting and if I've learned anything about parenting from all of my friends having babies it is that people have STRONG opinions about parenting and a lot of people like to share those opinions, whether they are welcomed or not.Plot: Six responsible adults. Vid and Tiffany are the boisterous and social next door neighbors with one child.Įach of their marriages are very different and the degree of friendship varies drastically giving a lot of opportunity for themes about relationships to emerge in this book. Oliver and Erika have been trying to have a baby for two years and are about to ask Clementine, Erika's best friend, to donate her eggs. They have two little girls, Sam just started a new job and Clementine is a cellist preparing for a big audition. This book is about how one mistake, on one seemingly ordinary day, can change the most meaningful relationships in your life (for better or worse.) Six responsible adults at a backyard barbecue: Sam and Clementine have a busy but otherwise great life. Liane Moriarty described herself as a "permanent reader." I really loved that phrase and I felt it describes me as well. At the end of this audio book the narrator and the author discussed their relationship with each other and their relationship to reading.
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