Again, every book doesn’t need to be everything buuuuut, I guess only white people go to the elementary school at the center of this narrative which, given Sydney’s reasonably diverse population speaks to how segregated the world is. Also, it just needs to be said, this is a very white book. But at the same time, some of what this book deals with is serious and so it makes the frothiness aggravating at times. Not every book needs to carry the weight of the world.

Yes, it deals with domestic violence and sexual assault and the pressures and pettiness of white middle class and upper class womanhood when it comes to their social lives and their children and so on, but everything here is easy, frothy. It’s certainly readable and hard to put down. But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.īig Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn’t be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. Possible?).Ĭeleste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. And to top it all off, Madeline’s teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline’s ex-husband over her.

Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline’s youngest (how is this possible?).

She’s funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.īig Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Sometimes it’s the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal.Ī murder.

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