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Liane Moriarty

The best-selling author of Big Little Lies on her new book, sibling rivalry and unhealthy obsession along the path to wellness

The main character in your new novel, Nine Perfect Strangers, is a genre fiction writer who gets little respect. Is she a mouthpiece for you? A little bit. I didn’t want the book becoming a soapbox or preachy. But of course because this character was close to my heart, she has feelings that would be similar to mine.

Other characters have recently experienced sudden

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