She also texts her kids before she leaves and puts her phone on the nightstand, but it knocks to the ground as the leaves. With that, the whole family expresses their disappointment since they really loved Indira. She stayed with her mother and their father took Harry. Joy thinks about how Stan has always fought against catering to Amys mental health issues, but in this case Joy has to weigh potentially upsetting Stan versus potentially upsetting Amy. As they chat, Logan mentions to her that he teaches at a community college. But are they were sitting there, the thought of themselves there as mere audience members (as opposed to as a coach, or player, or the parent of a player) reminded them of their spoiled dreams. Brooke is now single and still running her clinic as the pandemic rages on. Brooke is trying to research Savannah online, but nothing comes up for Savannah Pagonis. She tells them that she is Harry Haddads sister, who they only met once as a kid. Outside, Jacob Azinovic brings over a lamb casserole for them, though his real intention is to eavesdrop at his mothers request. subscribing to my weekly email about new posts AND/OR my monthly mystery and thriller newsletter, Review of The Sanctuary by Katrine Engberg. Amy thinks about how Brooke is more herself now that Grant is out of the picture. When Stan starts to walk out the door, Joy has finally had enough of him walking out and grabs at him to stop him. Despite her migraines, she has always been the most resilient and responsible sibling. The woman is talking about how her boyfriend flipped out after seeing a segment on domestic violence and being questioned about whether he paid the car registration fees. Amy tells them that she thinks her mother is probably fine, but Christina counters by telling her about her father getting an expensive car detailing the day after her mother disappeared. Updated: Sep 29, 2022 / 08:58 PM PDT. As a young girl, her mother wanted her to be a ballerina, so she forced Savannah to diet aggressively. As her kids try to find out what happened, they end up confronting their own issues and in their relationships with each other. He says that he doesnt know a Joy Delaney and that perhaps they have the wrong person. Inside, there is fridge magnet of a yellow flower. Im doing Harrys 21-Day Challenge to End Childhood Cancer. As she cleans, Barb spots Joys cell phone under the bed. And a CCTV recording shows Stan putting something bulky rolled up into his car trunk. Joy and Stan find a sobbing young woman in her late twenties there, who they dont recognize. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty is a unique mystery and family drama. While some of the Delaneys are sympathetic (Savannah agrees to return the money she got from Troy), they still tell her she needs to leave. (Their marriage broke up because he was unfaithful). I am also a fan of most of Liane Moriarty's work. Back inside, Joy explains that she told Harrys father that Harry needed training that Stan couldnt provide, so they left. Joy and Savannah are having lunch after having gone on a shopping day. . Still not sure why she said her mother played tennis??? Later, the Delaney family ended up running a tennis school, Delaneys Tennis Academy, and tennis club. Amy also thinks that the migraines made Brooke grow up too serious. Still, Joy still thinks theres something Savannah wanted to say but didnt. Recently, shed gotten her revenge on him, too. They refer to Joy as a poor missing grandma on the news, and Sulin cries thinking of how Joy will never become a grandma if that really is her body. Flashing back to September, the book also follows each of the siblings' lives as this is going on. Logan insists things were find between them, but he does tell them that his mother seemed to be feeling a little down prior to her disappearance. He soon tells them he thinks he needs a lawyer. The Delaney family love one another dearly it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other . Logan has been with his girlfriend Indira Mallick five years now, Brooke (who runs a physiotherapy practice called Delaneys Physiotherapy) is married to her husband Grant Willis, and the other two of her kids are single. Flashback to Last October. While Harry is now known as a high-profile philanthropist, Brooke mostly remembers how Harry had always been a cheat. Later, everyone will wonder what exactly went on in that household after Savannah entered their lives that night. In that moment, Savannah walks in. . Troy gives her the money. Meanwhile, Logan is in class when it suddenly occurs to him to go talk to Savannahs ex-boyfriend Dave to get more information about her. Savannah wasn't her child. (In the interim, she reaches out to Harry, who agrees that they should meet up when the pandemic is over, since he lives in America.). So, asked him to randomly drop her off somewhere, and she came to their house because it seemed the friendliest. The four Delaney children - Amy, Logan, Troy and Brooke - also famous tennis stars, all want to believe their father is innocent. Her mother was in hospital for two days. Stan thinks about his own father and how they used to play tennis together once a week secretly (since his mother didnt know they met up). However, he also knows his father told him he should just walk away if he's ever in a similar situation, which is why Stan forces himself to walk out.). Joy is certain Savannah is lying. . Flashback to Last October. As the book jumps back and forth in time, it's revealed that last September, a young woman named Savannah Pagonisshowed up at Stan and Joy's door, saying that she ended up here randomly since she didn't know where to go after getting into a fight with her boyfriend who hit her. . Stan thinks back to his mother and how cruel she could be with her words. Before she leaves, she writes Stan a note apologizing for some of the things she said and for sending Harry away. . She plans to explain Grants absence by saying he was sick. <br> <br>This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney . He tries calling a friend of his, Hien, but Hien is more interested in trying to convince Logan to coach his son in tennis. Amy then goes to check on her mother, which wakes Joy. #1 New York Times Bestseller "Liane Moriarty hits an ace in Apples Never Fall." The Associated Press "Game, Set, Murder. He brings up the Harry Haddad situation and how Troy lost his temper which got him banned for six months. Date read: August 1, 2021 The Characters: Delaney family Savannah Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon The Plot (from Goodreads): If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? It escalates into an argument when Stan accuses Joy of sabotaging him. At the house, an unfamiliar woman (Savannah) approaches him and introduces herself. But after fifty years of marriage, theyve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. It then jumps to present day, the four Delaney siblings -- Brooke (29), Troy (early 30s), Logan (37), Amy (39) -- discussing the disappearance of their mother, Joy Delaney, who appears to have ridden off on her bike a week ago. Brooke calls Joy, upset about them having a stranger staying with them. As Savannah peppers Joy and Stan with questions about their marriage, Joy thinks about the shameful, angry moments. The kids think that Joy might be gone as "payback" for all those times. He thinks about how angry he is and how he is just like his father. As they go in, they can tell that that her boyfriend is an artist. The Delaney's offer her their assistance. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty, anyone want to discuss it had me mad with author and story. In the end, Stan is almost arrested, but then it turns out Joy is alive when she returns from a 3-week off-the-grid trip with Savannah. On the other hand and to give a bit of the benefit of a doubt, she didn't plan to be away for so long. Savannah comments that hes a risk-taker. He returned at 10 oclock later that night. However, he still watches tennis on TV. Savannah says shes staying the secondary apartment of a married man whos a plastic surgeon that shes having an affair with. Joy tells herself the Delaneys will just be one short chapter in the book. By Christmas, Stan and Joy parents are still not speaking to each other. One day, she came to the Delaney's house to pick up Harry. The day Stan and Joy had finally gone to Wimbledon, his complicated memories of his father had come flooding back. When he says that, she finally bursts out by saying that she gave up her tennis career for him. However, she checks and theres no apples in the kitchen, and Stan has the car, so she has to take the bike to the grocery store. Amy is determined to gather biographical data about Savannah. Eventually, she met Stan who also played tennis competitively, but at 22 he suffered a bad Achilles injury. Meanwhile, the kids ask what she did with Savannah while they were off-grid. The next day, Detective Senior Constable Christina Khoury goes over her notes as she heads over to question Stan along with Constable Ethan Lim. She says that afterwards, they had an awkward lunch and that none of the siblings went to visit for a while. Brooke is on her way to work, still reeling from the brutal migraine shed had that weekend. Soon, Joy is hospitalized for two days due to a kidney infection. Joy is upset, too. She sent them a text message full of gibberish and hasn't been reachable since. She gotten her injury on her eyebrow from tripping over a guitar case. Right after Stan learns this upsetting information, he walks out. However, Stan says that she was never good enough to get to the top, and Joy angrily says that he wasn't the best coach for Harry (which she doesn't actually believe). Apples Never Fall. She tries not to think about things like what happened between her and Elias and whether Harry knew about it or not. She uses reverse image search, and it leads her to an image of Savannah at the launch of a recipe book, referring to her as Savannah Smith. Apples Never Fall Liane Moriarty. Someone drove him back. Now, she feels bad that she hated Harry so she didnt do anything when his niece ended up getting sick. After Joys father left, they moved in with Pearls parents. In the interim, the siblings start to suspect that Savannah is a liar when Logan realizes her story about her abusive boyfriend is copied word-for-word from an interview in a documentary. Flashback to last September. As for the CCTV, it turns out Stan was getting rid of the carpet which Joy had wanted him to remove for years, so now they had wooden flooring. Logan recognizes it as the exact same story that Savannah had told him about her boyfriend, with parts that were copied word-for-word. She goes after him and reaches out to stop him, but it causes him to nearly fall and she accidentally scratches him. Book Details. Before she does, Savannah drops the bombshell that Joy is the reason that Harry Haddad ditched Stan as his coach. She also does some product testing work as well. It mentions that Harry had cheated at tennis as a kid. They ask Logan about his parents marriage, pointing out that his father never once tried to call Joy after the left. (Joy tells them it was also so he could focus on coaching their kids, but later she admits to herself that it was more for herself and because she was angry at Stan for walking out on her all the time). Sponsor Me! (In that moment, Stan thinks about how his own father had once laid hands on his mother. Troy says that Harry had cheated, but his father denies seeing it happened. She manages to make it there and buy the apples, but then she ends up with a flat tire. Brooke runs a physiotherapy clinic and is currently separated from her husband Grant. These symbolize the four children of Stan and Joy Delaney, a couple. Before they can say more, Logan says that he needs to go, and they get off the phone. Brooke is talking to the police and tell them how Joy got sick last fathers day with a kidney infection (which she misdiagnosed as a UTI). Indira soon calls, asking after how Joy was doing in the hospital. Prior to her disappearance, she sends a text to her children saying that she is going to be off grid for a while. which will take off any day now. Joy also thinks about how she hadnt fully understood how bored she and Stan had been until Savannah arrived on their doorstep. After that, the siblings stay away from their parents' house for a while. That revelation causes Joy and Stan to confront the issues in their marriage. She says it always seemed like Brooke was constantly making an effort to make him happy and not a two-way street. When they arrive, Savannah answers the door since both parents are asleep. As they try to unravel the mystery of what happened to her or where she went, the four siblings -- Troy, Brooke, Logan and Amy -- are forced to confront truths about their relationships . Logan has been doing odd jobs around the house ever since his father had suffered a torn ligament on his 70th birthday. Instead, hed been apologizing for forgetting her birthday that day theyd all shown up at his place. Dave says that never happened. What do you make of the Prologue in which a man happens upon the bike that Joy abandoned because it had a flat? When he sees Savannah, his demeanor remains calm, and he apologizes for what happened between them. Flashback to Last October. Her husband has confessed. Afterwards, Troy decides to make his own announcement. Flashback to last September. She talks about how tennis dominated her childhood. He also says that she was never going to make it into the top ten, otherwise he wouldnt have let her stop playing tennis. She also asked Amy to make her a sandwich, but Amy said no. In present day, Ines runs into Grant while shes out shopping with her mother. Theyd gotten into an argument over nothing (she asked if hed paid the car registration which he took as being passive aggressive) and things had spiraled. As a boy, Stan had once seen his father knock his mother unconscious by throwing her across the room, and he now still refuses to talk about his father. She considers telling Claire about the news, but decides against it. In present day, Ethan and Christina discuss Savannahs aliases and her business selling fake tennis memorabilia. As they chat, they establish that Savannah also lied about having recently moved from the Gold Coast and about having grown up in foster care. Savannah tells him what his parents are up to and about how Joy had taken her to her hairdresser, Narelle Longford. She talks about how their dad has scratches on his face (which their dad says he got climbing through a hedge) which the police may assume are defensive wounds. Amy is the oldest, but shes also a free spirit who has no career, no drivers license, no fixed address and precarious mental health. Looking at her mothers text, she realized it was supposed to read Going OFF-GRID for a little while. After hearing the information about Savannah from Logan, Amy runs into Simon downstairs. Why does the author leave the question unresolved? Around the time her mother returned from the hospital, her brother learned something about Savannah that made them nervous. The police soon identify their father, Stan, as a possible person of interest in her case. Harry had been his star, but Harry had eventually dumped Stan as a coach. In one of them is a picture of a young Savannah with a young Harry Haddad. Barb started working as a cleaner ten years ago, after her husband Darrin died of a stroke. This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, an audiobook that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. As Savannah presses the topic, Stan tells her that they were all in the top five of the junior players in the country at some point. Brooke thinks about how his laid-back philosophy probably charmed his partners for the first five years and then one day they lost their minds. Barb wonders why Joy would leave without her cell phone. For a non-spoiler version of the plot synopsis, see The Bibliofile's review of Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty. The family is reunited. They start moving her stuff out, but when they enter the bedroom, they see that her boyfriend is home. Shes new in town and doesnt know anyone else in Sydney. Joys father left them when she was 4, and then he died in a fist fight three years later. Then, Brooke ends up telling everyone that she and Grant broke up as well. Earlier this year, I ranked her best books and it was a lot of fun to take a look back at some of her previous novels. She texted them before leaving, rode off on her new bike and disappeared. As she chats with her seatmate, Savannah tells him that her mother plays tennis. 20 Best Book Club Books for 2022 (New & Anticipated), Best Mystery & Thriller Books for 2022 (New & Anticipated), 20 Best Books with Asian American Protagonists (for Adults), Persephone by Madeline Miller: What We Know, Books to Movies & TV in 2022: 25+ Adaptations Coming Soon, Your email address will not be published. Joy realizes Savannah must have some type of eating disorder and feels bad for her. Alone in their room, they talk about how awful it is that Savannahs boyfriend hit her. The Delaney family love one another dearlyit's just that sometimes they want to murder each other . Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty Published September 14, 2021 by Henry Holt and Co. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty <br>#Fiction@best_audiobooks <br>#Liane_Moriarty@best_audiobooks <br><br>The Delaney family love one another dearlyit's just that sometimes they want to murder each other . She tells herself shes here to be supportive of him as a friend, but her friends insist shes still in love with him. Book Details. Did her mother manage to get out or is she still locked in there? He heads over to the apartment that afternoon. Stan mentions how Amy was a comeback queen when she played. He says that after the October encounter he never saw Savannah again. One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joys door. At that moment, Savannah admits that she's Harry sister who they met once. Stan and Joy are the envy of all of their friends. for work. Love, Mum. While their mother had indicated she was going off-grid, it was still odd for her to be out of touch for so long. Grant tells Ines that he and Brooke arent divorced yet, but theyre more focused on Joys disappearance right now. She still feels bad that she had initially dismissed Brookes complaints as a child when they first started. 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