The Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy's door, bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend. But that's okay, now that they're all successful grown-ups and there is the wonderful possibility of grandchildren on the horizon. The four Delaney children-Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke-were tennis stars in their own right, yet as their father will tell you, none of them had what it took to go all the way. But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. They're killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?

The Delaney family love one another dearly- it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other. 'I was intrigued by the idea of the poor elderly couple thinking they were doing the right thing by letting her in.From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. Moriarty has also spoken about being inspired by certain news stories, telling Penguin in 2021, 't here was one particular newspaper article I read about an elderly couple who let a young woman into their house, who said she was a domestic violence victim and she then committed some crime.' “Sadly there are multiple cases where a woman goes missing and the husband is the chief suspect in her murder,” Moriarty told The Sydney Morning Herald, “He is invariably described as a loving father and that just got me thinking about how would I feel if my mother went missing and everyone was saying my father had possibly murdered her.” In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, the author said that she drew a lot of inspiration from true-crime podcasts she listened to during lockdown. While Apples Never Fall is fiction, Moriarty has admitted the story is inspired by some real events. Pan Macmillan Is Apples Never Fall Based On A True Story?

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