The Last Anniversary (42 page)

A special thank you to my friends Petronella McGovern, Marisa Medina and Vanessa Proctor for the time they spent reading and commenting on drafts of this novel. I’m also in debt to my sisters Nicola and Jaclyn Moriarty for all their suggestions and wonderful encouragement. My Grandma, Lily Dennett, provided lots of helpful information about the Depression, and my parents, Diane and Bernie Moriarty, helped with research and ideas and excursions on the Hawkesbury River! Thank you to my agent Fiona Inglis for being such a great supporter of my writing career. Finally, I am so lucky and grateful to have Cate Paterson as my publisher and editor–she made it a much better book.

Liane Moriarty
is an advertising copywriter turned author who grew up in Sydney, Australia.
The Last Anniversary
is her second novel. Her first novel,
Three Wishes,
was published in seven countries.

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Three Wishes

THE LAST ANNIVERSARY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moriarty, Liane.

The last anniversary / Liane Moriarty.—1st Harper pbk. ed.
p. cm.

ISBN-10: 0-06-089068-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-089068-1

1. Family—Australia—Fiction. 2. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PR9619.4.M67L37    2006

823'.92—dc22                  2005055047

EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200867-1

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