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Big Little Lies Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Liane Moriarty (Author), Caroline Lee (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)
4.4 out of 5 stars 159,477 ratings

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From the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Husband’s Secret comes the number-one New York Times best-selling 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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  1. Listening Length
    15 hours and 55 minutes
  2. Author
    Liane Moriarty
  3. Narrator
    Caroline Lee
  4. Audible release date
    July 29 2014
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Penguin Audio
  7. ASIN
    B072LJVSQJ
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 15 hours and 55 minutes
Author Liane Moriarty
Narrator Caroline Lee
Audible.ca Release Date July 29 2014
Publisher Penguin Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B072LJVSQJ
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Customers find the content awesome, entertaining, and brilliant. They also appreciate the characters, saying the storyline is believable and compelling. Readers describe the book as well-written, easy, and captivating. They describe the humor as humorous and actual. They mention the book talks about important subjects like bullying and domestic violence. Opinions are mixed on the pacing, with some finding it fast, while others say it dragged on.

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"...mystery but her characters are memorable, her humour distributed in perfect bite-sized pieces and she's a good writer. Fun, with some foreboding." Read more

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Top reviews from Canada

  • Origpic
    5.0 out of 5 stars This can happen to anyone
    Reviewed in Canada on February 8, 2022
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    Liane Moriarty has special interests she portrays in her novels: in 'Big Little Lies' the most prominent are the secrets that we hold, why we keep them from others and the damage they do. Jane, a young single mother moves into an apartment in an Australian beach town with her five-year-old son, intriguingly called 'Ziggy'. She quickly falls in with mothers of other children at the very liberal and slightly trendy local elementary school: Madeleine who was once married to Nathan who also has a child at school and a new, younger wife called Bonnie and the beautiful Celeste, a quite rich mother who seems to live an idyllic life with her handsome, charismatic husband Perry. But all is not as it seems. Madeleine has never forgiven Nathan for leaving her and she is insecure with Celeste's wealth. Jane keeps the secret of Ziggy's conception - who the father is and how it happens - until she doesn't and that slowly causes the facades that grip the community to slip away until a terrible reveal and its terrible result. This is a novel that is steeped in domestic abuse in a way that some of Moriarty's previous novels have touched on but not delved into in the way it affects all the characters in 'Big Little Lies'. I had watched Nicole Kidman in the TV series before reading the book. The TV series has more diverse characters and portrays the horror of the story very well, but the novel is more intimate, more engaging and has a much better ending. The second season of 'Big Little Lies' was a mistake, the novel shows how and why it wasn't necessary. This is a really good suspenseful read. Oh and yes, it has a neat love story too,
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  • Cee Ess
    4.0 out of 5 stars Big Big Truth: Page-Turning Mother Hen Lit
    Reviewed in Canada on August 12, 2014
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    Where to start. After reading some reviews on the amazon.com site, I almost didn't buy it (Kindle version) since some comments said it resembled her previous book, "The Husband's Secret," which I wasn't a big fan of. I liked three of her other five books so I went off of that resume and gave it a shot.

    It's just over 450 pages packed into 84 short chapters. It's a narrative that reads fast - and I'm a slow reader. The story zooms in on the parents and children of a kindergarten class at a school in a small Australian beach town. A dramatic event is unleashed at the starting block, and the story builds by going back in time and then moving forward, crescendoing in subsequent dramas to the climatic reveal of what actually happened. Along the way characters are developed, including a trio of different, but endearing friends who band together. As expected there was extraneous detail here and there, but it was bearable.

    The theme intertwines domestic violence and abuse with school bullying in a palpable and courageous way, making this book more than your average Chick Lit. I would call it Mother Hen Lit because it's more grown up and serious in topic, but easy enough in tone. It's an accomplishment in story telling that is original to Moriarty, much like her other books that were equally worthy: "The Last Anniversary," "What Alice Forgot," "The Hypnotist's Love Story." All that to say, unless the world of momsters at school drive you crazy, this is a pretty good read with dialogue that feels real.
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  • Wendy
    5.0 out of 5 stars another great story from Liane
    Reviewed in Canada on April 8, 2024
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    This is an excellent book. The storyline is believable and quite compelling. I am definitely going to read more of her books. I also loved “9 Perfect Strangers” the book and the series.
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  • Jessica K
    5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic book
    Reviewed in Canada on April 2, 2024
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    loved the show and the book was equally amazing. you need to watch this show i literally watched it three times through because it was so amazing
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  • 鶹 Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, not a page turner til the end
    Reviewed in Canada on January 19, 2021
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    I had high expectations for this so that’s likely my first problem. I thought it was ok but a little under stimulating and cheesy at times. Toward the end it did get good so overall I’m happy. Had I not paid for the book (library or whatever) I would have been more pleased. Was hoping for something more like Gone Girl. This is good if you want a light read and are extremely bored but it doesn’t leave me wanting to read any more of her books. 3.5 rounding up.
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  • Meredith
    3.0 out of 5 stars Fun and foreboding
    Reviewed in Canada on October 12, 2015
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    First Moriarty book; glad to have found her. A light mystery but her characters are memorable, her humour distributed in perfect bite-sized pieces and she's a good writer. Fun, with some foreboding.
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  • Cathryne
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good book. Very easy to carry around. Good price.
    Reviewed in Canada on August 20, 2018
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    Some of the pages were not bound correctly and a few of the back pages fell out. Other than that great book overall.

    ** CONTENT SPOILER ALERT **

    ** spoiler alert ** At first, I really did not like the characters. I found Madeline very irritating and a typical housewife. Once I understood her relationship with Abagail I could see why Madeline and Jane become instant friends. My favourite character was Celeste by far. I really felt bad for her the entire book. I really did not see Perry being Ziggy's father. That was an excellent twist and very well done.
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  • Slyroch
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting story
    Reviewed in Canada on February 24, 2017
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    This book was the first I've read from this author and i was pleasantly surprised! I read the book in anticipation of the HBO series. It is mysterious, funny, heartwrenching and a story with many difficult subjects. It reflects real life, real people and the way we think, speak, and tell ourselves and others lies about important stuff! We kid ourselves into accepting the unacceptable, over-react to things and under-react to others. The author has a strong grasp on humans. Bravo!
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  • Karen B
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational tale
    Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2015
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    I don't know why I resisted reading this book even though I continued to hear good, no, great things about it. Interestingly, much of what I did hear was understated. Rather than claims of 'it's fabulous/wonderful/moving/erudite/beautifully written' (and believe me, this novel is all those things and more), the phrase I heard the most was 'just read it.' I also noted that people whose judgment I value rated it their best book of last year.
    Finally, early into 2015, I picked up Big Little Lies and the silly notion I'd developed that it was somehow a comic novel rapidly disappeared as I was drawn into the world Moriarty has created and the lives of its fully realized and complicated characters. Now, don't get me wrong, there are some genuinely laugh out loud moments as there would be in a novel centered around three women whose common ground is the school their children attend and the small beachside neighborhood they live in. Anyone with children in primary school forced to interact with other parents knows playground and parental/family politics can be a source of great amusement but also, as a Big Little Lies intricately and accurately maps, painful angst.
    Told from multiple points of view, the novel follows part of a school year and three mums whose children are newly enrolled in kindergarten. There is pragmatic 'I call a spade a spade' Madeline with her love of bling, glitter and her fierce sense of loyalty and social justice. Then there is her close friend, the extremely beautiful, slightly ethereal and distracted Celeste, mother to rambunctious twin boys with a perfect husband, house and wealth to spare. Finally, there is single-mother, Jane and her beloved young son, new to the area and carrying a great secret.
    The narrative unfolds retrospectively, the pivotal moment (*minor spoiler* – it is revealed in the blurb but don’t read on if you don’t want to know) in which time starts to wind back is a murder. Taking us back to the point at which the three women meet, we follow the first tentative steps of friendship as Madeline and Celeste, who are already good friends, take Jane under their wing. This fledgling threesome’s friendship’s bonds are immediately tested and tightened when Jane's son is accused of something terrible at school (no, not the murder).
    Thus the stage is set and what unfolds as the school year progresses and we start to race towards what we already know is going to happen is both the normality and impossibility of the daily life and grind of ordinary people. Moriarty plunges the reader into these women's lives and the secrets, lies – big and small - and truths of their existence, and that of their children, partners and families, as well as those of the many other characters that pepper and influence their lives. Other voices are given a brief platform from which to speak, serving to draw the reader into the mystery underpinning the entire story: who was killed? Where and why and by whom?
    Masterful, evocative and haunting, the novel captures so many of the complexities of relationships: the joy, despair, frustration and fury that can co-exist under one roof between partners, parents and children, as well as those we call friends or acquaintances. It reveals what lies beneath the surface, exposes the facades we powerfully erect and work hard to maintain and why we do this as well. It explores the ways in which and reasons behind certain behaviours, even when we know they’re wrong or wonder what we’re protecting by acting that way – usually, ourselves.
    This is a wonderful, chewy novel (by chewy, I mean you find yourself considering so much of what happens and what is said, turning it over and over in your head, thinking scenarios through, in many ways, testing their veracity and asking yourself, would I (or anyone I know) have said/done that) that lingers for ages in the head and heart. It is so believable, the characters so three dimensional and real you want to either slap them, interrupt an argument and add your two bits worth or invite them to a party and get drunk with them.
    Absolutely marvelous prose by a brilliant writer whose work I cannot wait to sink my teeth into again and mull over some more. Might be an early call, but could be my best read for 2015…
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  • Alpha Reader
    5.0 out of 5 stars So dark and so funny and so darkly funny...
    Reviewed in Australia on July 31, 2014
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    The Pirriwee Peninsular is a fictional slice of Sydney-sider heaven. A laid-back beach community with a mix of well-to-do’s and blue collar families, all of whom congregate at the only Primary School, Pirriwee Public.

    This school year has already kicked off with a bang, when the new crop of little darlings were embroiled in a bullying scandal on orientation day – that’s right, one little girl was sporting bruises and finger-pointed a classmate (a little boy, whose mother was also new to the area and so young she was mistaken for a nanny!).

    But this little incident would prove only the tip of the iceberg for the new school year – especially when you consider the bullying that went on amongst the parents in retaliation to allegations thrown against their own children.

    Is it any wonder the Trivia Night ended in the murder of a parent?

    Backtrack six months to where it all began, and follow three mothers who would prove too close for comfort to the ongoing investigation.

    Madeline is as glittery as she is fiery, never happier than when she’s wearing righteous indignation – and lately she’s had cause to wear it often. Not only is she at the beginning of the terrible teenage years with her 14-year-old daughter, Abigail, but Abigail’s father (who walked out of their marriage and left Madeline the single-mother to their baby) is living on the Peninsular too – having moved there with his new wife, and their toddler daughter who will be attending Pirriwee Public with Madeline’s own daughter from her second marriage. There really should be a law against ex-husband’s and their new (replacement) families sharing school zones.

    Celeste is one-half of dazzling couple with her jet-setting husband, Perry. They live in a sprawling house, have the best of everything and Perry makes up for his long absences with beautiful bits of jewellery for his stunning wife. They have twin boys who are starting at Pirriwee Public this year and Perry’s Facebook account can attest to their perfectly happy family … except it’s all a lie.

    Jane is twenty-five and single-mother to beautiful little boy, Ziggy. Painfully thin and self-conscious, she up and moved to Pirriwee on impulse and because she thought Ziggy would quite like the beach. Her family have been concerned about her ever since she confessed to being pregnant from a one-night-stand she has no wish to go into more detail about … save to say, Ziggy won’t be meeting his biological father anytime soon, not so long as Jane has something to say about it.

    These three women form a united front when, on the Pirriwee Public orientation day, one of their children is singled out as a bully – and then subjected to ongoing and unsubstantiated bullying by Pirriwee Public parents who want them expelled from the school.

    It’s going to be a hell of a year.

    ‘Big Little Lies’ is the new fiction book from Australian author Liane Moriarty.

    The Moriarty name has long been associated with literary excellence and bookish-obsession for many Australian readers. Jaclyn Moriarty is the extremely popular young adult author of ‘Ashbury/Brookfield’ fame, and recently Nicola Moriarty has rounded out the triumvirate literary powerhouse. But lately the rest of the world has started sitting up and paying some serious attention to Liane Moriarty, the sister who since 2003 had been quietly releasing wonderful adult fiction titles (and the occasional children’s book) … until last year when her novel ‘The Husband’s Secret’ made it to #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and catapulted this Australian women’s fiction author into a new stratosphere of international literary fame.

    The praise was deserved, as ‘The Husband’s Secret’ (a favourite book of 2013 for me) was a tight, psychological suburban-gothic thriller that was as much an examination of marriage as it was of guilty-conscience. And now Liane Moriarty has come out with ‘Big Little Lies’ – which has already received a Kirkus starred review and seems destined (and deserving) of another trip to the top of the NYT Bestseller list for Moriarty … with this book she turns her eye to women’s secrets, family microcosms and the funny little world of child rearing in an era of mummy-bloggers and bullying as the hottest of hot-button topics.

    Let me just say – this is one of my favourite books of 2014. Hands down.

    I don’t have children, but I come from a family of teachers (many of whom teach Primary school) and I absolutely delighted in this book for the way it so seamlessly (and frighteningly) matched up with the anecdotes my family bring home from their jobs. The helicopter parents, and precocious little darlings and the “everyone get’s a trophy!” ethos of modern-day parenting/schooling – it was vicariously delicious, and I envision many readers squirming for how Moriarty portrays these caricatures of modern-day family with pin-prick accuracy. And, believe me, Liane Moriarty gets some descriptions so perfectly, so acerbically, right: "They mean very, very well. They’re like, hmmm, what are they like? They’re like Mum Prefects. They feel very strongly about their roles as school mums. It’s like their religion. They’re fundamentalist mothers."

    It’s the sort of book you read and, with descriptions like that, you’ll instantly have a private light-bulb moment and chuckle because it’s just like someone you know (and when that happens, please, recommend the book to them).

    The story begins on the fateful trivia night, when someone dies – and then backtracks to six months before and the bullying incident that sparked a parental warfare in the playground of Pirriwee Public. Each chapter from then on offers a glimpse into the present-day investigation going on into the murder, with hilarious excerpts from the detective interviewing the parents (who also offer the odd tid-bit of gossip and personal opinions on all players involved).

    The book follows three mothers – Jane, Celeste and Madeline – each with their own problems and secrets, and maps their friendship and how they three came to be on one side of the parental warfare.

    I ‘discovered’ Liane Moriarty in 2011 with ‘The Hypnotist's Love Story’, which I loved. I’ve since gone back and read Moriarty’s backlist … but I’ve got to say, I think ‘The Hypnotist's Love Story’ marked a turning point for her that reaches a brilliant crescendo with ‘Big Little Lies’. Her earlier books were a lot funnier, and much more typical ‘women’s fiction’ (sigh, do I dare use the word ‘beach reads’?). They’re good, don’t get me wrong, but I think Moriarty started exploring much darker stories and sharper edges with ‘The Hypnotist's Love Story’ which then led to the very gothic ‘The Husband’s Secret’ and now ‘Big Little Lies’ feels like the best of both worlds – this book is funny, particularly for Moriarty’s social commentary around family, female obligation and school. But this book is also very dark – I always read feminist undertones in Moriarty’s work, and in ‘Big Little Lies’ especially she touches on domestic abuse, single-mother stigma, the conflict of “working women can’t have it all”, female beauty and sexuality, pornography and a slew of other topics … coupled with the over-arching murder storyline, this is a brilliantly placed book for being so dark and so funny and so darkly funny.

    This was such an enjoyable read. One moment I’d be cackling manically and then when I finished reading a chapter I’d think on the events for hours afterwards, for all the controversies Moriarty had raised. I loved this book, it really does cement Liane Moriarty as someone who is very deserving of her new literary fame (though I say that reservedly, she’s always been beloved in Australia – it’s mostly America who is suddenly taking notice of her).

    I’m calling ‘Big Little Lies’ as my favouritest-favourite book of 2014 thus far. A big call, but it’s a bloody great book.
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  • Kanika gupta
    5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing read
    Reviewed in India on January 16, 2025
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    This book had me hooked to it from the very start and I finished this one in 4 days . My personal best. The story is very engaging with a powerful message against domestic violence and how we tend to ignore such things.
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  • Thorsten Fischer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr spannend und unterhaltsam
    Reviewed in Germany on June 5, 2018
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    3 Frauen, Freundinnen, jede hat ihr eigenes Geheimnis. Von Anfang an ist deutlich, dass die Geschichte auf eine Katastrophe zusteuert, wie die aussieht, bleibt jedoch bis zum Schluss unklar. Sehr lebendig und spannend erzählt. Zwar passieren eigentlich nur alltägliche Kleinigkeiten, aber die Autorin schafft es irgendwie, damit eine ungeheure Spannung aufzubauen. Mich hat das Buch nachhaltig beeindruckt. Es ist lang her, dass ich so ein unterhaltsames Buch gelesen habe. Ich habe dann auch das andere bekannte von ihr gelesen, "The Husband's Secret", war auch gut, aber dieses hier hat mir besser gefallen.

    Ich habe das Buch auf Englisch gelesen, es liest sich sehr flüssig, keine schwierigen / unbekannten Wörter.
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  • shiloh
    5.0 out of 5 stars Passionnant de bout en bout
    Reviewed in France on August 30, 2019
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    C'est le 1er ouvrage que je lis de cet écrivain. L'intrigue est bien écrite, bien menée. Un crime a peut être été commis. Qui est la victime, qui est le potentiel meurtrier? Les dernières pages nous donnent la clé de l'énigme, sans que cela "tombe comme un cheveu dans la soupe". On se rend compte aussi qu'un petit secret plus un petit secret peuvent amener à une catastrophe...
    Après avoir dévoré ce livre, je l'ai prêté à ma fille qui l'a trouvé également passionnant. Il est maintenant dans les mains de mon autre fille. J'attends son verdict
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