DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEP From the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place. Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.
DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEP From the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place. Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.
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Contemporary domestic suspense and upmarket fiction reached new international audiences through novels that dissect the hidden tension beneath suburban domesticity. Australian author Liane Moriarty became the first writer from her country to debut at number one on The New York Times bestseller list, building a wide readership through sharp observations of family dynamics, marriage, and female friendships in works such as Big Little Lies.
Born on November 15, 1966, in Sydney, Australia, Moriarty grew up as the eldest of six children in a family that encouraged reading and storytelling. Her early creative writing included a childhood mystery commissioned by her father, though she initially built a career in advertising and marketing. She eventually returned to creative writing by enrolling in a master's degree program at Macquarie University. During her graduate studies, she completed her debut novel, Three Wishes, which was published in 2003. Since her debut, Moriarty has written ten novels that have collectively sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, including four million across Australia and New Zealand.
Moriarty's fiction bridges commercial domestic drama and psychological suspense by exploring how concealed secrets, minor misunderstandings, and quiet betrayals disrupt ordinary lives. Her stories frequently center on complex female friendships, parenting, mental health, and the social expectations placed on modern women. Rather than relying on traditional thriller tropes, she constructs narrative tension by gradually uncovering multi-layered secrets through relatable characters and witty dialogue. This balance of dark underlying secrets and accessible portrayals of suburban existence has made her work widely popular and highly adaptable, leading to major television series adaptations for titles such as Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers, The Last Anniversary, and Apples Never Fall.
2 books in catalog
Contemporary domestic suspense and upmarket fiction reached new international audiences through novels that dissect the hidden tension beneath suburban domesticity. Australian author Liane Moriarty became the first writer from her country to debut at number one on The New York Times bestseller list, building a wide readership through sharp observations of family dynamics, marriage, and female friendships in works such as Big Little Lies.
Born on November 15, 1966, in Sydney, Australia, Moriarty grew up as the eldest of six children in a family that encouraged reading and storytelling. Her early creative writing included a childhood mystery commissioned by her father, though she initially built a career in advertising and marketing. She eventually returned to creative writing by enrolling in a master's degree program at Macquarie University. During her graduate studies, she completed her debut novel, Three Wishes, which was published in 2003. Since her debut, Moriarty has written ten novels that have collectively sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, including four million across Australia and New Zealand.
Moriarty's fiction bridges commercial domestic drama and psychological suspense by exploring how concealed secrets, minor misunderstandings, and quiet betrayals disrupt ordinary lives. Her stories frequently center on complex female friendships, parenting, mental health, and the social expectations placed on modern women. Rather than relying on traditional thriller tropes, she constructs narrative tension by gradually uncovering multi-layered secrets through relatable characters and witty dialogue. This balance of dark underlying secrets and accessible portrayals of suburban existence has made her work widely popular and highly adaptable, leading to major television series adaptations for titles such as Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers, The Last Anniversary, and Apples Never Fall.
