Cat, Lyn, and Gemma Kettle are triplets: two identical blondes and one redheaded outsider, bound together by a lifetime of shared history, private jokes, and old rivalries. As they move through the year toward their thirty-fourth birthday, each sister is quietly coming undone in her own way. Cat, sharp-tongued and competitive, is blindsided by a revelation that upends her marriage. Lyn, the family's tireless overachiever, keeps her perfect life running on schedule while battling secret waves of panic. And Gemma, the flighty free spirit who drifts from house-sit to house-sit, finds her fear of commitment tested when she falls for a charming locksmith.
Woven through their year are the wry observations of the strangers who cross their path — waiters, neighbours, passers-by — who glimpse the sisters mid-argument and mid-embrace and can never quite tell where one ends and another begins. Meanwhile the triplets' long-divorced parents are behaving more strangely than ever, forcing old wounds back to the surface.
Liane Moriarty's debut novel, Three Wishes is warmer and funnier than the darker dramas that made her famous, yet already unmistakably hers: an affectionate, sharply observed comedy about sisterhood, marriage, and the fierce, maddening love between siblings who have never known life without one another.