Apples Never Fall

　　深愛的人，永遠傷自己最深…
　　如果母親失蹤了，你會報警嗎？
　　如果最大的嫌疑犯，是自己的父親呢？
 
　　Delaney夫婦Joy和Stan是朋友圈眼中鶼鰈情深的典範，不僅是網球上大殺四方的好手，場下的你情我儂也是眾人見證。50年的婚姻後，他們決定賣掉聲譽良好的網球教育事業，好好靜下來享受真正的黃金人生。四個小孩曾經也盼望成為網球界的明日之星，現在都已成年，並安穩地各自過著生活，家人之間的感情在外人看來仍很融洽。
 
　　然而這天晚上，和睦的家庭在一個陌生女子Savannah來訪後，遭逢巨變。渾身是血的Savannah，痛訴她被男友毒打的經過。Joy決定將她護入門內，給她一個暫時的棲身之所。然而2020年2月14日的早晨，Joy卻宣告失蹤，來路不明的Savannah也不見人影，警察只能詢問唯一留在現場的人證－Stan。他和其他嫌疑人一樣宣稱自己的清白，但作為失蹤者的配偶，Stan似乎隱藏了一些秘密。而兒女們反覆閱讀來自母親的最後一封簡訊，在那被輸入法自動矯正的文字行間，好像也透露出一絲詭異氛圍。四位兄弟姊妹自動分成無條件相信父親清白，以及不那麼確定的立場，如同網球場上對立的兩側。他們即將以全新視角，重新審視父母間的婚姻，以及家族之間的過往，如同一來一往的網球，Delaney家族真正的樣貌也將逐漸清晰。

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　　The Delaney family love one another dearly - it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .

　　Joy Delaney and husband Stan have done well. Four wonderful grown-up children. A family business to envy. The golden years of retirement ahead of them.

　　So when Joy Delaney vanishes - no note, no calls, her bike missing - it's natural that tongues will wag.

　　How did Stan scratch his face? And who was the stranger who entered and suddenly left their lives? What are they all hiding?

　　But for the Delaney children there is a much more terrifying question: did they ever know their parents at all?

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　　'Utterly and completely wonderful. I've loved all of Liane's books but Apples Never Fall is next-level writing: an intelligent, forensic portrait of a family. A thrillingly honest depiction of a long marriage and an unsentimental look at the lives of their four children. Which also happens to be a hugely engaging, sometimes very funny, page-turner' MARIAN KEYES

　　Praise for Liane Moriarty:

　　'One of the few writers I'll drop anything for' JOJO MOYES

　　'Staggeringly brilliant' SOPHIE HANNAH

　　'Keeps you guessing until the very end' REESE WITHERSPOON

　　'Her slow-burning plotting leaves you gasping' GRAZIA

　　**Apples Never Fall has been optioned for TV by Heyday Television**