Liane Moriarty is an Australian

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Author

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. She is the sister of author Jaclyn Moriarty

Jaclyn Moriarty

Jaclyn Moriarty is an Australian novelist, most known for her young adult literature.-Biography:Moriarty was raised in the northern suburbs of Sydney. She has five sisters and one brother. Two of her sisters, Liane Moriarty and Nicola, are also novelists. Moriarty studied English at the University...

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Career

After leaving school, Moriarty worked in advertising and marketing at a legal publishing company. She then ran her own company for a while before taking work as a freelance advertising copywriter. In 2004, after obtaining a masters degree at Macquarie University in Sydney her first novel Three Wishes, written as part of the degree, was published.

Two further novels have been published and a fourth was published in Australia in October 2011 and should be available in the UK in August 2012.

Moriarty lives in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

with her husband and two children.

Adult

• Three Wishes (2004)
• The Last Anniversary (2006)
• What Alice Forgot (2010)
• The Hypnotist's Love Story (2011, Australia, due 2012, UK)

Children's

• The Petrifying Problem with Princess Petronella (2009)
• The Shocking Trouble on the Planet of Shobble (2009)
• The Wicked War on the Planet of Whimsy (2010)

External links

• Liane Moriarty's website
• Liane Moriarty's blog