While Moriarty says she will always set her books in Australia, the Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers adaptations were set in California. "I know that with our cultural cringe, we might find that a bit hard to believe, but she does not change her books to suit an American audience – she keeps the Australian settings, she keeps the Australian vernacular." Newcastle Writers Festival director Rosemarie Milsom says part of the appeal of Moriarty's books to US readers is their Australian setting. At one point in 2015, she had three books on the NYT bestseller list, a rare achievement. Unusually for an Australian author, Moriarty found success in the US before Australia. I wanted Oprah, but I didn't get Oprah." Australia vs the United States Later, she tried the same tactic for Oprah Winfrey: "I was quite serious. "I can always remember saying to the producers, not quite believing my audacity, 'I have a role for Meryl Streep,' and they were laughing at me saying, 'Oh Liane, you've become so Hollywood, getting on the phone and saying, Get me Meryl!' – but then one day I got an email saying, 'We got you Meryl'." Her sister Jaclyn suggested she "have fun with it" and write a role for her favourite actor.Įmboldened, Moriarty took her advice and created a character with the inimitable Meryl Streep in mind. Nor does she cast as she writes – except in the case of the novella that would become the second season of Big Little Lies. Nicole Kidman played Masha Dmitrichenko, the founder of a wellness resort called Tranquillum House, in the 2021 adaptation of Nine Perfect Strangers. Even with Nine Perfect Strangers, I had pages and pages at the retreat where they were doing something called the Noble Silence, so there was no dialogue for pages on end". I have a lot of internal monologues in my books. Proof, she says, is the fact that "a lot of the time my characters are thinking one thing and saying something completely different.
While her seven remaining novels have been optioned for film or television, Moriarty insists she doesn't write with the adaptation in mind. "I thought these actors would be quite jaded and not care as much as they cared, but I found it quite inspirational how much passion they put into the job," she says. She was surprised at the cast's commitment to the show. Instead, she says, "I was a very interested bystander getting to visit the set and enjoying seeing what they did with it." I can think of nothing I want to do less," she says. It makes me want to cry with boredom, the thought of adapting my own book. "For me, part of the pleasure in writing is finding out what's going to happen in the story, and … I knew what was going to happen. Moriarty declined the offer to write the screenplay, saying she was happy to take a step back from the project. Moriarty's Apples Never Falls was one of Australia's top selling books in 2021.
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In 2021, Kidman also starred in Nine Perfect Strangers, Hulu's limited series based on Moriarty's 2018 novel, alongside Melissa McCarthy and Michael Shannon. Kelley (The Practice Ally McBeal) and starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, and Zoë Kravitz – was about as high profile as they come, winning five Primetime Emmy Awards in 2017.
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The adaptation of Big Little Lies – an HBO TV series created by Hollywood heavyweight David E.
To date, Moriarty has published nine novels and three children's books which have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and two of her novels have been adapted for the screen. In 2014 came Big Little Lies, which debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list, a first for an Australian author. The story of three women connected by a devastating secret, the book became a bestseller in the United States. Her breakthrough came 10 years later with her fifth novel, The Husband's Secret. "You had to complete 30,000 words to complete the degree, and I wrote 100,000," she says. She then enrolled in a master's program and wrote what would become her first book, Three Wishes, published in 2003. Her first attempt, an Olympics-inspired children's book, was "enthusiastically rejected by every publisher in Australia". It was just the jolt Moriarty needed to finally start writing again, something she'd loved to do as a child but had let slip as an adult. Sarah L'Estrange speaks with Liane Moriarty
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