Seven Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
The retreat at health and wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, and absorb the meditative ambience while enjoying their hot stone massages.
Watching over them is the resort's director, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired bodies and minds.
These nine perfect strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.
With her wit, compassion and uncanny understanding of human behaviour, Liane Moriarty explores the depth of connection that can be formed when people are thrown together in... un-conventional circumstances.
The Author:
Liane Moriarty is the Australian author of eight internationally bestselling novels, Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotist's Love Story and the number one New York Times bestsellers The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty and most recently Nine Perfect Strangers. Her books have sold over twenty million copies worldwide, including three million in Australia and New Zealand. Liane lives in Sydney with her husband, son and daughter.
Reader & Industry Reviews:
*Longlisted for the Abia General Fiction Book of the Year 2019
*Longlisted for the Indie Book Award for Fiction 2019
*From the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret and Big Little Lies.
*Nine Perfect Strangers may well be my new favourite Liane Moriarty book, or at least tied for first place with Big Little Lies. I don’t know. Trying to rank these books is mentally exhausting – but suffice to say it’s a very close call. With Nine Perfect Strangers, Moriarty has moved slightly away from the “domestic noir” genre. Sort of. This book thrums with suspense. It contains that same thrilling sense of mystery and discovery that I have come to associate with with this author – but at this same time it feels different from her previous novels. Maybe simply because this time the setting is not suburban? Or perhaps it’s the number of characters that Moriarty is juggling this time? Either way Nine Perfect Strangers achieved a rare and wondrous miracle for me. It felt fresh and new and totally surprising, while still delivering the same exact ‘Moriarty magic’ that I both wanted and expected. -Booktopia reviewer
*"She is...both hugely popular yet subversive...Nine Perfect Strangers shows Moriarty still taking risks with fiction...weighty issues writ with humour and a light touch. The hammer is still in the handbag, ready to smash a glass window or two." - Lucy Sussex, The Australian
*"Welcome to Tranquillum House where those Perfect Strangers ... have come to sort out their lives ...This gives Moriarty the opportunity to do what she does best, write about the human condition and connections that bind us all, with wicked humour, empathy and compassion - and a little bit of danger thrown in." -Frances Whiting, Courier Mail Source; Booktopia
Our Review:
We had a robust discussion about the main theme of this book, the doping of the nine clients without their knowledge at the Wellness Retreat and how this act helped or affected them when they found out about it. We all read the book, so the discussion was lively. Some members went as far as being interested In visiting a wellness retreat in the future.
I really enjoyed this book because I thought it had a very unusual plot. I enjoy Liane Moriarty’s writing, it holds my interest . Her characters are believable and usually I am empathetic towards them. Her books are easy to read, put down and pick up again. The Book Club verdict for this book was 50/50, half of us liked it and half didn’t. I would recommend it as an interesting, easy read.
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