The structure follows the pattern of Big Little Lies (2014) by setting up a mystery and then jumping months into the past to unravel it. As worrisome details come to light, the police become involved. But days pass and Joy remains missing and uncharacteristically silent. 14, 2020 (note the date), the last text she sends to her now-grown kids-bohemian Amy, passive Logan, flashy Troy, and migraine-suffering Brooke-is too garbled by autocorrect to decipher and stubborn Stan refuses to accept that there might be a problem. Their long, complicated marriage has been filled with perhaps as much passion for the game of tennis as for each other or their children. Joy and Stan Delaney met as champion tennis players more than 50 years ago and ran a well-regarded tennis academy until their recent retirement. Australian novelist Moriarty combines domestic realism and noirish mystery in this story about the events surrounding a 69-year-old Sydney woman’s disappearance.
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