The couple have recently sold their successful tennis academy and are enjoying their golden years. Stan and Joy Delaney are the parents of four adult children and have been married for several decades. In his wedding toast at Claire and Troy’s wedding (a marriage long since scuttled by Troy’s casual infidelity), Stan defends the power of love despite its vulnerability. Apples Never Fall Description From 1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty comes a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest The Delaney family love one another dearlyit’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other. Apples Never Falls follows the tennis obsessed Delaneys who, from the outside, appear to be a enviably happy family. This occurs late in the novel (in the scene right before he’s to be arrested for murdering Joy). Ironically, Stan, who broods through most of the novel as a husband who has most likely killed his wife on Valentine’s Day, delivers the novel’s most powerful endorsement of love. Divorce, calculated infidelities, physical abuse, long periods of chilly silence, distrust, selfishness, disappointment, the dark itch of lust, emotional indifference, the solace of distance, emotional and geographical-overall, the novel seems to dismiss love as a chimerical fantasy. Even Stan and Joy’s own parents were locked into claustrophobic marriages that simmered near anger and violence-and endured only through alcohol and fights. Each of their kids faces a different level of relationship failure. From Liane Moriarty, the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at. Stan and Joy, despite appearing to have a stable and content marriage, bear deep grudges against each other that regularly create tension and drama. Joy and Stan Delaney have four grown-up children, a successful family business and their golden years ahead of them.
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