Their busy, active life used to be full of obligations, constant diversions and interruptions. Now Stan and Joyce are newly retired, and Joyce is adjusting to domestic life with Stan. Joyce, a veritable dynamo, raised 4 children while still playing tennis and running the school. Stan and Joyce were tennis champions who owned their own tennis school, complete with cafe. The chapters then go back and forth in time. The second timeline goes back to some months earlier when a young, distressed girl comes knocking at the Delaney home, looking for help, late at night. Stan, Joyce’s husband for 50 years isn’t the one to report his wife missing, and that seems strange, but then they weren’t on the best of terms. She sent a garbled text to her 4 children saying she was going ‘off grid,’ but that’s very unlike Joyce. The story unfolds through 2 timelines: 69 year-old Joyce Delaney is missing. Liane Moriarty’s engaging novel, Apples Never Fall is a tale of marriage, family dynamics, and buried resentments. “That’s the secret of a happy marriage: step away from the rage.”
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