Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Three Wishes: A Novel
    Unavailable
    Three Wishes: A Novel
    Unavailable
    Three Wishes: A Novel
    Ebook433 pages6 hours

    Three Wishes: A Novel

    By Liane Moriarty

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Listen to the audiobook instead

    About this ebook

    Australian triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle are about to turn thirty-three and one is pregnant, one has just had her life turned upside down, and one is only just keeping hers from skidding off the fast lane. Meanwhile, their divorced parents have been behaving very oddly indeed.

    In this family comedy by Liane Moriarty, we follow the three Kettle sisters through their tumultuous thirty-third year—as they deal with sibling rivalry and secrets, revelations and relationships, unfaithful husbands and unthinkable decisions, and the fabulous, frustrating life of forever being part of a trio.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061856914
    Author

    Liane Moriarty

    Liane Moriarty is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies, The Husband's Secret, and What Alice Forgot, as well as The Hypnotist's Love Story, Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, and the Nicola Berry series for children. Liane lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children. www.lianemoriarty.com.au

    Related to Three Wishes

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Book Club

      Jul 29, 2020

      Book Club
      1 min read

    • Article

      Top 10 Books

      Feb 5, 2021

      Top 10 Books
      1 min read

    • Article

      Jennifer Weiner

      Sep 24, 2016

      The best-selling novelist talks about her family, her difficult childhood and her recent Oprah’s Book Club controversy

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Midnight Library

      Aug 12, 2020

      The Midnight Library
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Millions Top Ten: September 2017

      Oct 16, 2017

      This month marks the entrée of two newcomers. The post The Millions Top Ten: September 2017 appeared first on The Millions.

      1 min read

    • Article

      All-inclusive

      May 9, 2019

      All-inclusive
      9 min read

    • Article

      Book Extract

      Jan 20, 2020

      My year off was also interesting, in that I didn’t feel any less loved, or cherished, or wanted. Why? Because my life is already rich with soulmates, and I got the chance to behold that. You don’t have to shag someone for them to be a soulmate. We do

      7 min read

    • Article

      Notes on Etiquette

      Mar 1, 2019

      Notes on Etiquette
      10 min read

    • Article

      J. Jezewska Stevens

      Dec 15, 2017

      The party was a failure. I can’t even tell you what a failure it was. There are no words. Only a great pain in my chest when I wake up. On the veranda. It’s better when I sit in the chair. Oh, but then I can see around. The gauzy curtains, pushed by

      15 min read

    • Article

      Why I Don’t Write

      Mar 7, 2019

      Why I Don’t Write
      6 min read

    • Article

      Joanna Scanlan

      May 24, 2021

      A At 16 I was at a very pleasant girls’ boarding school in North Wales. I enjoyed that life, I had bags of fabulous friends – I’ve enjoyed friendship all through my life. Until I was 16 I always took it upon myself to stand up for what I saw as injus

      5 min read

    • Article

      Birdie

      Jan 14, 2020

      Birdie
      24 min read

    • Article

      Nothing Compares To You, Mum

      Aug 23, 2023

      Is there a more comical phrase, from the mouth of someone pushing 60, than ‘I'm an orphan now'? There may be rivals. ‘Suella Braverman,’ for example, ‘she's nice.’ Or ‘I love flying Ryanair.’ For all that, there is something so innately amusing about

      3 min read

    • Article

      All By Myself

      Apr 28, 2020

      All By Myself
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Reckoning with Reality (TV)

      Apr 2, 2018

      A Reckoning with Reality (TV)
      15 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Oct 30, 2020

      I RECENTLY landed up in hospital, and as I’m a coffee addict I was taking a bit of strain. In the ward they served coffee only at 5am and 6pm. Desperate for my fix I thought I’d try my hand at charming the lady who brought my lunch. So I decided to p

      3 min read

    • Article

      Big Summer Energy

      Jun 14, 2022

      Big Summer Energy
      5 min read

    • Article

      Robin Abcarian: Parenting A Child Again Is A Challenge, A Joy And A Lesson About Who Comes First

      May 2, 2019

      It's not very often that you get a chance to relive something as profound as parenting a young child, but quite out of the blue four months ago, a little girl I love came to live with me. She is a close relative, and the circumstances that brought he

      4 min read

    • Article

      Five Minutes With...JONNO ROBERTS

      Oct 30, 2022

      Five Minutes With...JONNO ROBERTS
      1 min read

    • Article

      Helen Lederer

      Apr 8, 2024

      Helen Lederer
      6 min read

    • Article

      FOOD or SEX?

      Dec 29, 2021

      FOOD or SEX?
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Complex

      Mar 5, 2020

      The Complex
      4 min read

    • Article

      What Love We THIS MONTH

      May 25, 2020

      I know some people will be horrified by this, but I really don’t like crispy or crunchy biscuits. Sorry, I just can’t stand the thought of chipping a tooth during teatime! After tinkering with this recipe for a bit, it now produces the best, chewiest

      4 min read

    • Article

      Happy Endings

      Sep 1, 2023

      Happy Endings
      5 min read

    Reviews for Three Wishes

    4/5

    292 ratings47 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      This time, I actually sort of did see the twist coming. Well, one of them. And frankly, not as quickly as I probably should have. But still. I'm getting better.

      I believe this was one of Ms. Moriarty's first novels, although it doesn't feel like it. It employs the same convention as many of her other ones - the point of view of three different characters. In this case, the characters are sisters. Triplets actually (a set of identical twins and one fraternal twin). They are interesting, leading fairly ordinary lives (although none of them have money troubles, which doesn't actually seem that ordinary). But they have challenges, and their relationships with each other, their divorced parents, and their partners are all a bit complicated.

      There isn't a ton to say about this book, other than I enjoyed reading it, and it's kind of perfect for right now, when I have a lot going on at work and home but still want to read something on the bus that isn't going to overly tax my brain. However, one area that rubbed me the wrong way was that one of the characters drives drunk. She only does it once, and actually gets caught and there is a repercussion of sorts. But it was treated so ... lightly? I mean, I think it was meant to show us how the character was feeling, that this person would do this, but still. This person could have killed someone, and it was just weird to have it be some sort of character-building moment as opposed to a really serious thing.

      I'd recommend the book if you're heading out on vacation and want something that isn't entirely a pile of fluff but that is still very fun and easy to read.
    • 3/5
      I think this book should have actually been titled 'Three Bitches'. Seriously.
    • 4/5
      I haven't read all of Liane Moriarty books but so far this one is my favorite.
    • 5/5
      Liane Moriarty did it again. I adored this book. I was immediately drawn into the characters and all their unique and quirky things they had going on. To be in a set of triplets I'm sure would make your life full of craziness and drama. A great read.
    • 3/5
      The story begins with a set of triplets at their birthday party and goes back to the events leading up to it. Lyn struggles with being a mother, wife and buisness woman. Cat who has the perfect marriage, or so she thinks. Gemma who floats along and changes jobs and boyfriends quite often.I have read three other books by Liane Moriarty, The Husbands Secret, Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty, and enjoyed all three. This book is the authors first and I didn't enjoy it is much.The story starts like the other books I have read, in true Liane Moriarty fashion. Then for me the story slowed up while it was setting the scene. For a while it picked up momentum but then went flat again and began to drag. There were some amusing monents at times as the authors humour was present in the book. I feel that as she has progressed with more books she gets better and better.I'm glad that I have read other books first because if I had read this one then I may not have picked up any more and would miss out on what a good author Liane Moriarty is.
    • 5/5
      Another great Moriarty read!
    • 4/5
      The first of Moriarty's adult novels, totalling seven so far. I've now read three. "Three Wishes" is a warm, sweet, sad series of episodes in a complicated, yet familiar, family. There's much to engage the reader as Moriarty has worked out how to let the reader discover the feelings and thoughts of her characters by what they do and say in her scenes. She evokes our senses to enter into her worlds. Quite a gift.
    • 4/5
      This story was very well written about the 33 year-old Kettle triplets. Their characters well very well-developed. Lyn was very organized, Kat has marital problems and Gemma is free spirited and leaves relationships at the 6 month point. It deals mostly with their sibling rivalry and their uniques experiences. It is filled with lots of laugh-out-loud moments but there are some serious situations that they need to deal with also. I loved The Husband's Secret by this author and look forward to reading another of her books. I highly recommend this book If you like chick-lit that is very entertaining.
    • 4/5
      I've enjoyed several of Liane Moriarty's novels and was pleased to read Three Wishes. It was interesting to learn this was her debut novel and was reissued in 2014. It held my interest throughout because the characters seemed real and the lively story was interesting. There were three protagonists, 33-year-old triplets, who were dealing with life's issues.Even though there were some heavy subjects happening at times, Ms. Moriarty used her incredible sense of humor to keep things on the lighter side. By heavy, I mean infidelity, miscarriage, domestic abuse, infertility, and divorce. The triplets' individual personalities were portrayed in such a defining way as each triplet's story was told from a different viewpoint. Other characters played major roles and contributed to the triplet's strong bond with each other and their families.
    • 4/5
      Really enjoyed this book about three interesting women and their family. I thought a lot of the situations discribed are recognizable, in female friendships.
    • 4/5
      Three wishes is about triplets,mand thier struggles in their lives. The story explores reasons leading to events on their thirty-fourth birthday.
      The relationship between the three of them is very complex. However, a little annoyingly, I found that they behaved chidishly most of the time. I was OK with it in the beginning, but then it started to feel like the story didn’t go anywhere. At the end, there is some character development though.
      Writing was superb, as always.
      I liked the book afterall, but it was not as good as other works of Ms Moriarty.
    • 5/5
      This was my second book by this author (the first being the last anniversary) and I loved it! I found it a very emotional read partly due to the emotional topics but also because the author really draws you in and makes you feel everything! A great story! Give it a go!
    • 4/5
      3.5?. Its ok. The best parts were all the little flashbacks that other people have with the triplets.

      Recommended: meh ?
    • 5/5
      This book just made me feel good from cover to cover.
    • 5/5
      What an interesting read! Masterpiece, she sure knows how to paint pictures with stories
    • 4/5
      4/5 stars“Opinions were for other people. It was fascinating how upset they got about them.”Having been quite disappointed in my last Moriarty read (Truly Madly Guilty) I was very pleased with Three Wishes. I think this was her debut novel, and man it was good. Probably the funniest one I've read by her. Sure, her other books also have lough out loud moments, but this one was loaded with them. Also, Moriarty needs to write more books because I have only two to go before I've read all of her works. I've just had such a craving for women fiction this year, particularly Liane Moriarty's women fiction . It's only March of 2018, but I've already read 3 of her books. “You're having one of those days of accumulating misery when you argue violently with someone in a position of power: a bank teller, a dry cleaner, a three-year-old.”I don't know why recently I've been having such craving for women fiction. Maybe because I'm getting closer and closer to being thirty, and her books usually focus on women of that age. Maybe because I cannot get enough of family drama, social life problems, motherhood, relationships and anything else that life throws at women in her books. But I inhale simply inhale her books. “The year Lyn turned twenty-two someone switched her life over to fast-forward and forgot to change it back again. That’s how it felt.”The story follows three women, in this case triplets, and their lives - husbands, kids, family relations. Most of Moriarty's books follow this patter, and in some cases it does gets repetitive, but this book felt fresh for some reason. Maybe because it was her first work, when she found her style. Maybe because the way the story was told brought different perspectives, I don't know, but it was very, very enjoyable. Surprisingly I enjoyed all of the characters in this book, all of the female characters at least: Gemma, Lyn and Cat - all brought something to the table that I could either relate to or just learn from. Gemma was probably my favorite though. Three Wishes deals with grief, separation, siblings relations, divorce, infertility and many more issues. I loved how Moriarty never pulled her punches and always wrote things that I thought myself at times, but was too shamed to admit them. She painted her characters real and flowed, and I loved that. There was no magic solution, no over the top happy ending - it was just life. Definitely recommend.
    • 5/5
      This is the third book I've ready by this author and it is probably my favorite one yet. I enjoyed the other two, The Husband's Secret and What Alice Forgot, but the humor and way this book was written just made this book even more enjoyable. I'm so surprised to find out it was her first novel!
    • 5/5
      Loved it!
    • 5/5
      I love Liane Moriarty's style!! She sets the "hook" from the beginning of her stories. There are always twists and turns that you do not expect but are delighted when they happen. I can't wait for her next book!!
    • 3/5
      good
    • 4/5
      This book will make you smile. There is no sugar coated wrap up to the characters problems. It is a story of three strong women told from a fun perspective... Really enjoyed it!
    • 5/5
      I continually love Liane Moriarty because of her plot twist and turns. Three sisters, triplets, two identical, one fraternal and a lifetime of the difference!
    • 5/5
      I really like Liane Moriarty's writing style. Her characters get into crazy situations and one cannot help but laugh at their antics. In this story, a set of triplets with very different personalities meet to celebrate their birthday - complete with three separate birthday cakes. After they make their wishes something goes wrong with the celebration and they end up in a huge fight. The recounting of their lives, leading up to and after that fateful birthday, are told from the eyes of strangers who witnessed the sisters at varying points in their lives. Fun, quick, light reading.
    • 5/5
      great

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      f
    • 4/5
      Triplets face their own issues in their 30's. Funny, good characters.
    • 5/5
      Love it
    • 5/5
      goog
    • 3/5
      Really superb !
    • 4/5
      Although this doesn't seem to be one of Moriarty's more well-known novels (her first, I believe), I chose to listen to it on audio as it was freely available on my Hoopla app and I had enjoyed reading her Big Little Lies a few months ago. Though I didn't find this one quite as enjoyable as the latter, she seems to follow a similar writing style -- sort of chick lit, sort of quirky, sort of dramatic in its own way. This one starts out with three sisters -- triplets -- celebrating their 34th birthday in a restaurant. The drama is introduced quickly, as one sister stabs another (pregnant) sister in the stomach with a fork. The reader initially sees this from an outsider's point of view, and then the novel jumps back in time, telling the story which leads up to this rather dramatic scene. This seems to be Moriarty's trademark writing style.I had mixed feelings about this one. It was entertaining enough and there were some laugh-out-loud moments. The sisters seem to have a love/hate relationship with one another, and the story moves along with a lot of ups and downs. I'm not sure that any of the sisters were particularly likeable, although that sometimes makes for interesting dynamics in a story. I did enjoy this novel for the most part, although I found the ending a little too quick & tidy. It does appear that Liane Moriarty has refined her style a bit since this initial novel, and I do plan to pursue her other novels that I've not yet read.