Not so long ago, Moriarty, an Australian who lives in Sydney with her family, was not a household name in this country. Here’s the best news you’ve heard all year: Not a single page disappoints. This pattern may be tough on her characters, but for us, it’s a blast, and it has made her new novel, “Truly Madly Guilty” (Flatiron, $26.99, 415 pages) one of the most anticipated books of the summer. They live in the suburbs unaware of the dark side of human nature - or at least ignoring it - until the wily Moriarty yanks hard at the foundations they take for granted and upends their delicately balanced lives. The parents in Liane Moriarty’s darkly humorous novels are much like parents anywhere: loving, busy, distracted, juggling their children’s needs and their own desires as they negotiate the difficulties of adult relationships, jobs and the past, which intrudes at the least convenient moment.
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