![]() ![]() She just loved it! The other one said it was terrible. ![]() One of them said it was fantastic being a triplet. In most novels this would sound like sure-fire screen adaptation material but there’s a catch. ![]() What starts out as a joyful and noisy celebration turns suddenly into a hideous fight, disturbing the peace of everyone in the busy Sydney seafood restaurant and ending with one of the blondes throwing a fondue fork at the redhead (who is pregnant), then fainting flat out on the hard floor. The opening pages are told through the voices of various onlookers, mostly fellow diners and staff at the restaurant where blonde-haired Lyn and Cat, and redhead Gemma are out celebrating their 34th birthdays. Ms Moriarty’s light touch is again an absolute winner, so we can empathise and sympathise with each of the three leading characters in turn. Three Wishes was written as part of Moriarty’s master’s degree at Macquarie University in Sydney and was her first novel. And now I’ve loved Moriarty’s Three Wishes, originally published by Pan in 2004 and republished by Penguin in 2016. Alas, I’ve not managed to see the adaptation, but I loved the book on which it was based. Most people by now will have heard of Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies, famously adapted into a television series starring Nicole Kidman. ![]()
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