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Big Little Lies
Someone is dead at the trivia night. Moriarty works backwards to show you why. Every domestic surface hides something real.
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Pirriwee Public School
Liane Moriarty's 2014 novel is set among the parents of a kindergarten class at a school in a beautiful Australian coastal suburb. Three women form the novel's centre: Madeline, fierce and funny; Celeste, beautiful and hiding something; and Jane, young and damaged and new to town. The framing device is a police investigation into a death at the school's trivia night, and the story moves backward to reveal what those perfect lives contained. A sharp, intelligent novel about class, domestic violence, and the complexity of female friendship. The HBO series with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman won eight Emmy Awards.


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Reading Big Little Lies
3 Ominous
3 Vivid
4 Hidden
4 Tender
3 Comic
5 Revealed

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Oh, it's true, Madeline, darling. We're all just one tiny adjustment away from being the villain.


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Moriarty wrote the novel while simultaneously raising two children and said the world of competitive kindergarten parenting felt to her like a perfect setting for murder. The satire comes from genuine observation.
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The HBO adaptation changed the setting from Australia to Monterey, California and added a significant new storyline. It swept the Emmy and Golden Globe awards in 2017 and a second season followed in 2019.


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