Alice adora mangiare cioccolata e dormire fino a tardi la domenica mattina. Ha ventinove anni, un marito e un figlio in arrivo. Ed e sfacciatamente felice, pur avendo le stesse preoccupazioni di tutti. Per lei l'amore ha il profumo di lavanda, la pianta che ha fatto crescere davanti a casa. La felicità è la risata gorgogliante di un bambino, oppure è galleggiare tra le onde a braccia aperte, sentendo il sole sulla faccia. La vita è semplice e meravigliosa, per Alice. C'è solo un problema: tutto ciò è successo dieci anni fa. Alice è inciampata durante una lezione di aerobica, è caduta e ha battuto la testa. Un incidente di nessun conto se non fosse che, quando ha ripreso conoscenza dopo pochi minuti, ha scoperto di essersi dimenticata in un lampo di un'intera fase della sua esistenza. In realtà, ha trentanove anni. Ha mille impegni ed è fissata con la linea e l'organizzazione, lei che non aveva mai posseduto neppure un'agenda. Ovviamente non è più incinta, e chi diavolo sono quei tre minimarziani che la chiamano mamma? È fredda e distaccata, sua sorella non le rivolge quasi più la parola e, quel che è peggio, sta per divorziare. Cosa è successo? Ora che Alice ha l'occasione di vedersi sotto una nuova luce, non si piace più. Come fare per ritrovare la ragazza spensierata di un tempo? Man mano che i ricordi emergono dal passato come bolle di sapone colorate, salterà fuori che dimenticare è la cosa più memorabile che sia mai successa ad Alice. E che forse, ogni tanto, per rimetterci in carreggiata e riscoprire ciò che di bello abbiamo perso per strada, abbiamo tutti bisogno di

The new novel from the author of The Husband’s Secret
A #1 New York Times Bestseller

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.

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 dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.

Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.

A New York Times Bestseller



Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter to be opened after his death. Imagine‚ too‚ that the letter contains his darkest secret -- something with the potential to destroy the life you built together‚ and the lives of others as well. Imagine‚ then‚ that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all. Her life is as orderly as her home. But that letter is about to change everything.

Tuo marito ti scrive una lettera, la chiude in una busta, la sigilla 'da aprire solo dopo la mia morte'. Questa lettera nasconde il suo più profondo e oscuro segreto, qualcosa che può distruggere in un solo colpo non soltanto la vita che avete costruito insieme ma anche le vite degli altri attorno a te, dei tuoi vicini di casa, dei tuoi più cari amici. Immagina ora che questa lettera ti capiti tra le mani mentre tuo marito è ancora vivo... È quello che accade a Cecilia Fitzpatrick, una donna di successo, un punto di riferimento nel quartiere residenziale dove ha una bella casa, un marito adorabile di cui è innamorata, una figlia felice. La vita di Cecilia è ordinata e priva di incertezze. Ma la lettera, trovata per caso frugando tra i vecchi documenti di famiglia, cambia tutto. Rachel e Tess conoscono appena Cecilia, ma come lei pensano di conoscere benissimo se stesse e soprattutto i propri mariti, credono di sapere esattamente cosa aspettarsi dal proprio matrimonio. Eppure il segreto del marito di Cecilia si intreccia in maniera fatale con le loro vite e le sconvolgerà per sempre. Liane Moriarty ci fa entrare nel più perfetto dei mondi borghesi, nelle case senza macchie e ben illuminate, nelle stanze sempre aperte agli ospiti. Poi, con implacabile maestria, solleva i tappeti, fruga tra i diari, indaga gli angoli nascosti per mostrarci tutte le ombre e i segreti che incombono nelle vite delle più impeccabili famiglie.

Approaching their thirty-third birthdays, triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma recall their tumultuous prior year, one marked by pregnancy, a love affair, a mid-life crisis, and the possible reconciliation of their divorced parents.

Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.

Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Whenever they're together, laughter, drama, and mayhem seem to follow. But apart, each is very much her own woman, dealing with her own share of ups and downs.

Lyn has organized her life into one big checklist, juggling the many balls of work, marriage, and motherhood with expert precision, but is she as together as her datebook would have her seem? Cat has just learned a startling secret about her marriage—can she bring another life into her very precarious world? And can free-spirited Gemma, who bolts every time a relationship hits the six-month mark, ever hope to find lasting love?

In this wise, witty, hilarious new novel, we follow the Kettle sisters through their thirty-third year, as they struggle to survive their divorced parents' dating each other, their technologically savvy grandmother, a cheating husband, champagne hangovers, and the fabulous, frustrating life of forever being part of a threesome.

Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Whenever they're together, laughter, drama, and mayhem seem to follow. But apart, each is very much her own woman, dealing with her own share of ups and downs.

Lyn has organized her life into one big checklist, juggling the many balls of work, marriage, and motherhood with expert precision, but is she as together as her datebook would have her seem? Cat has just learned a startling secret about her marriage—can she bring another life into her very precarious world? And can free-spirited Gemma, who bolts every time a relationship hits the six-month mark, ever hope to find lasting love?

In this wise, witty, hilarious new novel, we follow the Kettle sisters through their thirty-third year, as they struggle to survive their divorced parents' dating each other, their technologically savvy grandmother, a cheating husband, champagne hangovers, and the fabulous, frustrating life of forever being part of a threesome.

Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single ever since. Now Thomas is back in her life because Sophie has unexpectedly inherited his aunt Connie's house on Scribbly Gum Island—home of the famously unsolved Munro Baby mystery.

Sophie moves onto the island and begins a new life as part of an unconventional family, where it seems everyone has a secret. Grace, a beautiful young mother, is feverishly planning a shocking escape from her perfect life. Margie, a frumpy housewife, has made a pact with a stranger. And dreamy Aunt Rose wonders if maybe it's about time she started making her own decisions.

As Sophie's life becomes increasingly complicated, she discovers that sometimes you have to stop waiting around and come up with your own fairy-tale ending.

Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single ever since. Now Thomas is back in her life because Sophie has unexpectedly inherited his aunt Connie's house on Scribbly Gum Island—home of the famously unsolved Munro Baby mystery.

Sophie moves onto the island and begins a new life as part of an unconventional family, where it seems everyone has a secret. Grace, a beautiful young mother, is feverishly planning a shocking escape from her perfect life. Margie, a frumpy housewife, has made a pact with a stranger. And dreamy Aunt Rose wonders if maybe it's about time she started making her own decisions.

As Sophie's life becomes increasingly complicated, she discovers that sometimes you have to stop waiting around and come up with your own fairy-tale ending.

Coming July 29, 2014, the new novel from Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times?bestselling author of The Husband’s Secret

'What a wonderful writer?smart, wise, funny.” ?Anne Lamott

Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women.