Big Little Lies. TV Tie-In

Liane Moriarty — 2017

** The number one bestseller Big Little Lies is now a HBO series starring Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Fassbender and Shailene Woodey ** 'Let me ask you a question. Would you like a series that has everything? Good. Because it is, emphatically, HERE' The Guardian Perfect family, perfect house, perfect life; Jane, Madeline and Celeste have it all . . . or do they? They are about to find out just how easy it is for one little lie to spiral out of control. From the author of Truly Madly Guilty and The Husband's Secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. Jane hasn't lived anywhere for longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic coastal town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane feels as if she finally belongs. She finds friends in the feisty Madeline and the incredibly beautiful Celeste, two women with seemingly perfect lives - and their own secrets. But at the start of a new term, an incident involving the children of all three women occurs in the playground, causing a rift between them and other parents. Minor at first but escalating fast, until the whispers and rumours become vicious and spiteful, and the truths blur into lies. It was always going to end in tears, but no one thought it would end in murder . . . 'Brilliant, stand-out, superbly clever. Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly' Sunday Express 'Blame and guilt, forgiveness and retribution, love and betrayal. A tense page-turning story . . . a great read' Mail on Sunday 'Staggeringly brilliant . . . literally unputdownable' Sophie Hannah 'Blending romance, comedy and mystery, this is a wonderful book - full of brains, guts and heart' Sunday Mirror 'Tolls a warning bell about the big little lies we tell to survive' Washington Post 'A fantastically nimble writer, so sure-footed that the book leaps between dark and light seamlessly' Entertainment Weekly

Reviews

aru@sapphics

Aug 15, 2022

this book was so good i get it i get the hype i love it

Lonneke@lonneke

Nov 16, 2021

(4,5*'s) This was a very well written and told story. Having these little interviews at the end of most of the chapters kept me wondering where the story was going, but the rest of the story was really interesting too. Couldn't give it 5 stars because I thought one of the main characters was too much of a caricature some of the time and I would have liked to see a bit more after the big thing happened, but besides that it was a great book! Can't wait to start the show.

Jane Krauss@ladyjane95

Aug 28, 2021

Wow! I wasn't expecting to like this book as much as I did. A story shows the danger and harm of gossip in a small community. Moving back and forward from before the death and after the death, it shows what really happened and then has the interviews of 'witnesses' written in portions in a screenplay format. I think because they are written, so differently, it wasn't really confusing as to what was happening. Admittedly, at first, I was confused, but I quickly got the gist of the story. I kept finding myself wanting to work out what happened, and I couldn't guess until close to the end. Ultimately I loved the different aspects of motherhood presented in the story, from broken homes, domestic violence, and even assault. It brings the hardships of all of these places them in an environment of comparison and parental competition.