'I thought these actors would be quite jaded and not care as much as they cared, but I found it quite inspirational how much passion they put into the job,' she says. She was surprised at the cast's commitment to the show. Instead, she says, 'I was a very interested bystander getting to visit the set and enjoying seeing what they did with it.' I can think of nothing I want to do less,' she says. It makes me want to cry with boredom, the thought of adapting my own book. 'For me, part of the pleasure in writing is finding out what's going to happen in the story, and … I knew what was going to happen. Moriarty declined the offer to write the screenplay, saying she was happy to take a step back from the project. Moriarty's Apples Never Falls was one of Australia's top selling books in 2021. In 2021, Kidman also starred in Nine Perfect Strangers, Hulu's limited series based on Moriarty's 2018 novel, alongside Melissa McCarthy and Michael Shannon.

Kelley (The Practice Ally McBeal) and starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, and Zoë Kravitz – was about as high profile as they come, winning five Primetime Emmy Awards in 2017. The adaptation of Big Little Lies – an HBO TV series created by Hollywood heavyweight David E. To date, Moriarty has published nine novels and three children's books which have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and two of her novels have been adapted for the screen. In 2014 came Big Little Lies, which debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list, a first for an Australian author. The story of three women connected by a devastating secret, the book became a bestseller in the United States. Her breakthrough came 10 years later with her fifth novel, The Husband's Secret. 'You had to complete 30,000 words to complete the degree, and I wrote 100,000,' she says. She then enrolled in a master's program and wrote what would become her first book, Three Wishes, published in 2003. Her first attempt, an Olympics-inspired children's book, was 'enthusiastically rejected by every publisher in Australia'. It was just the jolt Moriarty needed to finally start writing again, something she'd loved to do as a child but had let slip as an adult. 'The rage was really directed at myself because I … hadn't even given it a shot,' Moriarty told ABC RN's The Book Show. With the publication of Feeling Sorry for Celia, Jaclyn had fulfilled her half of the sisters' shared childhood dream to become writers.

Liane Moriarty was overjoyed when her younger sister Jaclyn published her first book in 2000.

Big little lies author