“I think are all wonderful, but Nicole especially is extraordinary as Celeste … I don’t want to just pick out Nicole but the thing with that character is everything was unsaid. In later episodes, Witherspoon’s character follows a storyline that Moriarty says she wouldn’t have written – but overall, she says, she “loves it”. She’s a very social, chatty, fast-talking kind of person. “As soon as they said was interested, I thought she could play Madeline.
They did bring in the humour as well – but the main thing is its more glamorous feel.” “Because it’s HBO it all looks beautiful,” Moriarty says, adding: “It’s got a darker, sexier, more glamorous feel than my books, and I think the tone of it is probably, overall, a bit darker. The most obvious difference between the book and its adaptation is the location: to get the best from a global market the story has been moved from Perriwee, a fictional place located loosely by the beaches north of Sydney, to Monterey, northern California. Photograph: HBOīig Little Lies follows the lives of three female friends, all with children in the local kindergarten, in the lead-up to a murder in their community. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley star in TV series Big Little Lies, adapted from a book by Liane Moriarty. And I’m pretty sure if I hadn’t done as well in the US I have done as well here, that’s what brought me the attention. I know my publisher found it frustrating. “I’ve certainly talked at a lot of writers’ festivals over the past couple of years, but before that I hadn’t been picked up – apart from that small group of loyal readers.
There are reasons why someone could be topping the New York bestseller list and remain virtually unknown in their home country: the limited market in Australia, for instance or the commercial nature of Moriarty’s work itself – often centred around the lives of suburban women – which may have grated against snobbery often found in the country’s literary sets.īut if Moriarty even entertains such thoughts, she is not letting on. “I’d leave the airport and I wouldn’t see any of my books, and I’d get off and there would be all my books in the bookshop, and I’d go to book signings and have lines of people,” she says, adding: “Some Australian readers get cranky – they say, ‘We knew her from the beginning’ – but I sold well in America first, for sure.” Before then, going to America was like “going to a parallel world”.
Moriarty has sold more than 6m books worldwide but it was only in the last couple of years that she started to get recognition in Australia.
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