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Speaker 1: Jumb Mission with Jonesy and Amanda No.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is the author that has Nicole Kidman saying,

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Speaker 2: whatever she asks for, I make sure she gets her

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Speaker 2: novels have been made into blockbuster series Nine Perfect Strangers,

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Speaker 2: Big Little Lies. Well, she's got a new book called

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Speaker 2: Apples neverfoll I read it last week. It was such

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Speaker 2: a page turner. I couldn't put it down. As always,

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Speaker 2: they're always page turners. Leanne Moriarty, Hello.

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Speaker 1: Hello, good morning. Thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: Oh I don't know how you keep coming up with

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Speaker 2: these storylines that are so so gripping. How did this

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Speaker 2: particular one come to you?

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Speaker 1: Well, there were a few little seeds of inspiration. The

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Speaker 1: first was I asked my sister to send me a

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Speaker 1: writing prompt, and she just sent me a little description

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Speaker 1: of a bike laying on the side of the road

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Speaker 1: with a few apples lying next to it, So that

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Speaker 1: got me started. And I think the second was just

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Speaker 1: listening to true crime podcasts because sadly, there are so

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Speaker 1: many multiple cases around the world where a woman goes

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Speaker 1: missing and her husband, who is often described as a

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Speaker 1: very loving father, is the chief suspect in her disappearance.

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Speaker 1: So that got me thinking, how would I feel as

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Speaker 1: an adult if my mother went missing and my father

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Speaker 1: was the person everybody was looking at. How would I

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Speaker 1: feel about How would I then look at their marriage

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Speaker 1: and I guess my childhood.

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Speaker 3: It's so juicy. I'm reading it at the moment. I'm

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Speaker 3: just enjoying it, and I love how you do you

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Speaker 3: manage to get the past and the present into the book.

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Speaker 3: I love how you do that interchange.

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Speaker 1: Oh good, thank you. It's because I do. I keep

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Speaker 1: doing that, and so reviews do say she does that again.

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Speaker 1: I can't seek to stop going back and forth.

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Speaker 3: But that's your thing. That's like saying that Stephen King

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Speaker 3: stopped writing about now it's the supernatural stuff.

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Speaker 1: You're right, thank you. I don't guess, but you're right exactly.

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Speaker 1: It is my big but I do sometimes I think,

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Speaker 1: this time I'll just write a first person linear story.

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Speaker 1: But then once again, I have multiple perspectives and going

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Speaker 1: back and forth.

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Speaker 2: The idea here often this is in your books too,

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Speaker 2: is that you scratch the surface of any life and

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Speaker 2: there are stories, and you don't have to have big,

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Speaker 2: dramatic things to make people go, oh, that's a little

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Speaker 2: bit old, or that's a bit weird, which I guess

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Speaker 2: is what happens here when you look at that couple's marriage.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, And I just well, I've just noticed that

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Speaker 1: just been in normal life. If you sit down with anybody,

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Speaker 1: you should find out who seems, you know, incredibly ordinary

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Speaker 1: from the outside. Everybody has has stories behind and I

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Speaker 1: would love to know the details of everybody's marriage.

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Speaker 2: Well, wouldn't we all? How do you see? Would that be?

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to hang around with you at a barbecue?

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Speaker 2: Are asking uncomfortable questions?

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Speaker 1: Again? Research you've stopped?

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Speaker 2: Have you changed how you right now because your books

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Speaker 2: are now being made into international television programs when you

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Speaker 2: sit down to write? Is the process different now because

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Speaker 2: of that? No?

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Speaker 1: It really isn't it, honestly isn't. I feel that perhaps

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Speaker 1: people won't believe me. But the truth is that I've

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Speaker 1: always had a lot of inner monologues in my writing,

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Speaker 1: so which I could never imagine how that would be

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Speaker 1: adapted to the screen. So I would never just want

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Speaker 1: to have all dialogues, and I never think of who

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Speaker 1: would play the role. And there was one exception to

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Speaker 1: that rule was when I was writing Nine Perfect Strangers

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Speaker 1: and I was writing the character of Mussia, but I

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Speaker 1: had her first, and then I thought, olbere you are Nicole.

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Speaker 1: I could see her, but okay, I wanted a second no,

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Speaker 1: but that doesn't count. I was going to say. The

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Speaker 1: second exception to the all is when I was writing

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Speaker 1: season two of Big Little Eyes. But that wasn't a

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Speaker 1: novel that was purely for the show.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was writing with an American accent, and that's

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Speaker 1: when I created the role for Merrill. But that's it

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Speaker 1: apart from that. Apart, Yes, I write just as I've

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Speaker 1: always written.

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Speaker 3: Well, you keep doing what you're doing. Don't change any

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Speaker 3: of this stuff. Is it true when Nicole says, what

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Speaker 3: if she asked for? I make sure she gets of you.

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Speaker 3: Have you tested that, because Nicole, she's got pots of money.

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Speaker 3: Get some cool.

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Speaker 2: Stuff like a jet ski?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like it could be anything you say, Nicole, I

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Speaker 3: feel like a poky bawl or a jet ski, one

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Speaker 3: of those things.

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Speaker 1: Is that what she said? I did? Well? I seem

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Speaker 1: to remember after I asked for Merrill, it went to

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Speaker 1: my head and I said, I want Oprah, get me

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Speaker 1: Oprah because and nobody took any notice of me. I

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Speaker 1: was quite serious. I wanted her, well, come we.

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Speaker 2: Get Oprah, get Nicole to get Oprah.

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Speaker 3: Come on, she'd be listening to the show. Well, Leanne,

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Speaker 3: I just love the book and you have such a talent.

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Speaker 3: Apple's Neverfore is in all good bookstores tomorrow. Leanne Moriarty,

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Speaker 3: thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: I'd love you to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Jonesy and Amanda's Famnation