*Apples Never Fall* by Liane Moriarty Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company

About the Book
If your mother mysteriously disappears and your father is the prime suspect, would you call the police?
Joy, 69, and Stan, 70, have been married for almost 50 years and are well-known tennis coaches in their community, running their own tennis school. To outsiders, their marriage seems happy and fulfilling, with a successful business and four adult children. But everything changes after they decide to retire and sell the tennis school. Joy mysteriously disappears, and Stan becomes the prime suspect. The children are divided into two camps: some suspect their father's involvement in their mother's disappearance and refuse to call the police, while others insist on reporting it to find their mother. In the process of searching for Joy, the family's secrets begin to surface...

About the Author
About the Author
Liane Moriarty is a bestselling Australian author. She published her first novel, "Three Wishes," in 2004, and has since written a series of realistic novels featuring contemporary urban women as protagonists. Moriarty excels at combining intricate plots with strong female characters; her novels are gripping, with subtle yet vivid psychological descriptions. Her representative works include "Big Little Lies," "What Alice Forgot," "The Husband's Secret," and "Nine Perfect Strangers."
To date, Moriarty's works have been translated into more than twenty different languages, with total sales exceeding 20 million copies. Many of her works have also been adapted into film and television series, including "Big Little Lies," which starred Academy Award winners Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and Meryl Streep, and won the Best Series award at the 75th Golden Globe Awards and the 69th Emmy Awards.

About the Translator
Xiong Tingyu, a university lecturer and member of the Sichuan Provincial Translators Association, specializes in translation practice and theoretical research. She has received excellence awards in the 21st and 22nd Han Suyin Young Translators Competition and has published over forty translations, including "Death Map," "The Philosophy Breakfast Club," "Blue Flower," and "Ayn Rand's Fiction Writing Course."