I really liked this book and for anyone who knows me, that will come as no surprise. Of course, everything is not always as it seems… To anyone who knows them, the couple is the epitome of a perfect marriage- on and off the tennis court. We also get an up close and personal glimpse inside Joy and Stan’s marriage. Each responds differently to their mother’s sudden disappearance. We also learn of Stan’s massive career disappointments, mainly being dropped as the coach for a student who went on to massive success in the tennis world.Įach of the Delaney children are given a voice, and each is as different as night and day, except that each harbors resentments, disappointments, and suffer from relationship woes. Switching back and forth in time, we learn that once Joy is left with an empty nest, a chance encounter with a troubled young woman named Savannah, morphs into a full-fledged bond for Joy, bordering on a mother/daughter type relationship between the women. The children are all grown now, with various occupations, and riddled with various life challenges, but everything comes to a crashing halt when Joy goes missing. Joy and Stan ran a tennis school, but while all their children played tennis, none of them made it into the pros. The Delaney family was destined to be a tennis dynasty of sorts. Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure-but as the two sides square off against each other in perhaps their biggest match ever, all of the Delaneys will start to reexamine their shared family history in a very new light.Īpples Never Fall by Lianne Moriarty is a 2021 Henry Holt and Co. But for someone who claims to be innocent, he, like many spouses, seems to have a lot to hide. Later, when Joy goes missing, and Savannah is nowhere to be found, the police question the one person who remains: Stan. The Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy’s door, bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend.

But that’s okay, now that they’re all successful grown-ups and there is the wonderful possibility of grandchildren on the horizon. The four Delaney children-Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke-were tennis stars in their own right, yet as their father will tell you, none of them had what it took to go all the way. But after fifty years of marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. They’re killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?

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