Title: Big Little Lies
Author: Liane Moriarty
Pages: 480
Genre: Fiction/Mystery
ISBN-13: 9780399167065
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Rating: 4-stars
Read: April, 2015 – I own a copy.
“Sometimes it’s the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal. . . A murder . . . a tragic accident . . . or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what?”
Set in suburban Australia, Big Little Lies is the fifth book of bestseller author Liane Moriarty. It follows the lives of three women, their struggles, and events that lead to a death at Pirriwee Public School trivia night.
The book follows these three different women as they meet at a kindergarten orientation at school. Madeline, who’s just turned forty, and her daughter Chloe. The young and single mother Jane, who had recently moved to Pirriwee beach with her son Ziggy; and the beautiful Celeste with her twins Max and Josh.
When Jane’s five-year-old son Ziggy is accused of choking and bullying another child, some of the parents immediately take a stand against the boy triggering hysteria and a series of playground politics and drama.
What I absolutely loved about this book was how easily Moriarty weaved the lives of these complex characters and tackled hard topics such as murder, bullying, infidelity, domestic abuse, and violence against women in a humorous and fun way, but without ever losing the severity of these social issues. She managed to write an extremely well plotted and engrossing story. I simply could not put this book down. It kept me up till late hours of the night dying to get to the end of the book, not so much to find out who did it, but who dies?
I laughed; I cried; and now I’m very sad that it ended. Oh calamity…
A Wondrous Bookshelf 
I’m such a huge fan of this author precisely because, as you point out, that despite tackling some big issues she injects humour into her writing without belittling the issue. Great review of one of my favourite reads of 2014.
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Thank you!
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Great review! I have yet to read this book… tbr pile it goes 😉
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Thanks!
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This is on my list to read. I’m going to have to move it to the top!
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I loved it, too! It’s really well done.
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