Everyone has secrets. Even in seemingly perfect families.
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When Joy Delaney, a pensioner who lives with her husband in an affluent suburb of Sydney, goes missing after sending her children a confused text, they come to consider the worst: their father could- he be responsible for his disappearance? In this new novel which is undoubtedly his most successful since Little secrets, big lies, the Australian Liane Moriarty navigates between past and present and varies the points of view in order to build a suspense that is both funny and dramatic. Old grudges and resentments resurface; the wounds that never healed too, like the disappointments of this most ordinary mother who manages to embody the matrimonial struggles of a whole generation of women devoted to their families, but completely helpless when it comes time to “enjoy” of retirement. With its irresistible characters, Set and match! immerses us in the complexity of family relationships and the intimacy of a close-knit clan that is far from perfect, but which could not seem more true.
Set and match!
Liane Moriarty, translated from English by Sabine Porte
Albin Michael
528 pages