Her breakthrough came 10 years later with her fifth novel, The Husband's Secret.
"You had to complete 30,000 words to complete the degree, and I wrote 100,000," she says.
She then enrolled in a master's program and wrote what would become her first book, Three Wishes, published in 2003. Her first attempt, an Olympics-inspired children's book, was "enthusiastically rejected by every publisher in Australia". It was just the jolt Moriarty needed to finally start writing again, something she'd loved to do as a child but had let slip as an adult. "The rage was really directed at myself because I … hadn't even given it a shot," Moriarty told ABC RN's The Book Show. With the publication of Feeling Sorry for Celia, Jaclyn had fulfilled her half of the sisters' shared childhood dream to become writers. Liane Moriarty was overjoyed when her younger sister Jaclyn published her first book in 2000.
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