from the author of truly madly guilty and the husband s secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survivea murdera tragic accidentor just parents behaving badly whats indisputable is that someone is deadmadeline is a force to be reckoned with shes 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 exhusbands and second wives mothers and daughters schoolyard scandal and the little lies that can turn lethal