‘One of the Top Ten Books of the Year’ PEOPLE MAGAZINE
‘Emotionally astute, immensely smart … destined for critical accolades and a big-screen adaptation’ ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
‘A bold and daring novel, layered and morally challenging’ RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB REVIEW
Liane Moriarty
Big Little Lies
‘I guess it started with the mothers.’
‘It was all just a terrible misunderstanding.’
‘I’ll tell you exactly why it happened.’
Pirriwee Public’s annual school Trivia Night has ended in a shocking riot. A parent is dead. Was it murder, a tragic accident . . . or something else entirely?
Big Little Lies is a funny, heartbreaking, challenging story of ex-husbands and second wives, new friendships, old betrayals and schoolyard politics.
No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty turns her unique gaze on the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves every day and what really goes on behind closed suburban doors.
‘Let me be clear. This is not a circus. This is a murder investigation.’
‘It draws out lashings of dark humour, and ultimately drama . . . although the style and emotional register are quite different, Moriarty’s ability to mine suburban anxieties in a compelling way calls to mind Tsiolkas’ The Slap.’ SATURDAY AGE
‘The secrets burrowed in this seemingly placid small town . . . are so suburban noir they would make David Lynch clap with glee . . . A fantastically nimble writer, so sure-footed that the book leaps between dark and light seamlessly; even the big reveal in the final pages feels earned and genuinely shocking.’ ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
First published 2016 in Macmillan by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd 1 Market Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2000
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Cover design: Christabella Designs
Cover concept: Emily Mahon
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The characters in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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