Big Little Lies: The No.1 bestseller behind the award-winning TV series (English Edition)

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THE NO.1 BESTSELLER BEHIND THE AWARD WINNING TV SENSATIONGet ready for the highly anticipated second series of Emmy & Golden Globe Winning Big Little Lies, starring Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon & Nicole Kidman, by reading the first book . . . ____________Perfect families, perfect houses, perfect lives.Three mothers, Jane, Madeline and Celeste appear to have it all . . . but do they? They are about to find out just how easy it is for one little lie to spiral out of control._____________Single mum Jane has just moved to town. She's got her little boy in tow - plus a secret she's been carrying for five years.On the first day of the school run she meets Madeline - a force to be reckoned with, who remembers everything and forgives no one - and Celeste, the kind beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare, but is inexplicably ill at ease. They both take Jane under their wing - while careful to keep their own secrets under wraps.But a minor incident involving the children of all three women rapidly escalates: playground whispers become spiteful rumours until no one can tell the truth from the lies. It was always going to end in tears, but how did it end in murder?_____________'Blame and guilt, forgiveness and retribution, love and betrayal. A tense, page-turning story . . . a great read' Mail on Sunday'Blending romance, comedy and mystery, this is a wonderful book - full of brains, guts and heart' Sunday Mirror'A hell of a good book. Funny and scary' Stephen King'Brilliant, standout, superbly clever. Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly' Sunday Express

Reviews

"Little Lies" takes place in a pretty coastal town near Sidney, among a small community of parents who have their children in the same kindergarten class, in a public school by the sea. People are nice to each other and well-behaved, they have coffees and cupcakes at ??Blue Blues?, they run or walk on the beach. The mothers either stay at home or work part-time, sometimes they even have a career. The fathers bond at social events talking about golf?On trivia night, a murder occurs on the school grounds. We don??t know who was killed, and who did the deed. Liane Moriarty narrates the months leading to the fateful event, from the point of view of several characters, as well as from snippets from police reports and gossips. It all starts with a new single mum, Jane, whose son has been accused of bullying by a little girl from his class?The characters are well drawn, flawed, sometimes hilarious, and mostly sympathetic: Renata, the mother of a gifted child, one of the ??blond bobs? who think they are in charge of the school, Jane, the insecure young mother with a difficult past, Celeste, the stunning and wealthy woman who hides a painful secret, and Madeline, the one who has to deal with heartbreak and jealousy as her elder daughter announces she prefers to live with her father and his new wife, a vegetarian yogini. The men, though secondary characters, are also represented in their suburban diversity: Ed, the nice second husband supportive of his wife even when she dwells too much on her ex-husband and his second wife, Tom, the barista whom Jane feels comfortable with because he??s gay, or Nathan, the rich, handsome husband with a darker side to his personality?"Little Lies" is a delightful mystery that has a few twists up its sleeve, doubled with a convincing and hilarious character study. Liane Moriarty has done a fine job observing people. This novel reminded me a little bit of "The Deaths", by Mark Lawson. In both cases we know from the start there is a victim but we don??t know who, and both are social satires where ugly secrets are hidden beneath the perfect surface. In "Little Lies" however, the characters are more endearing, especially Madeline and Jane.