It’s a song we’ve all heard before…the rich and privileged are never what they appear to be. Though they may look happy and beautiful on the outside, behind closed doors they’re just as troubled and tortured as the rest of us. Clearly, money can’t buy happiness…but it certainly can buy a whole butt-load of drama.
In Big Little Lies, three privileged women, each very different from the other, are thrown together in a series of crazy events that leads to someone getting killed. A guilty-pleasure chick lit book involving husbands, ex-husbands, mothers and daughters, school drama and suburban scandal, Big Little Lies is a fun treat that shocks and surprises you with little twists and turns that lead to one heck of an ending.
Our three protagonists are Madeline, Celeste, and Jane. Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate…a driving force in her social circle. Her friend, Celeste, is suburban royalty. Beautiful beyond compare, Celeste strives to be the queen of the school parent body. Jane, a new-to-town single mom, is sad and conflicted and has secret doubts about her past life. All three women have children in the local school, which is the glue that begins to join these women together. However, when Madeline and Celeste decide to take sad little Jane under their wing and help get her accustomed to the ‘politics’ of their social circle, it becomes clear that Jane and her son bring along more baggage than they thought…and things quickly begin to spin out of control…
In their own ways, Madeline, Celeste, and Jane are all easy to love and easy to hate. They all have their quarks, but it’s clear that their hearts are in the right place…and they’re all just trying to do what’s best for their families, in whatever way they can. They each experience trouble at home and each deal with it in their own way. Some fight back, some cower down, and some just ignore it completely. But for as different as these three women are, they share one commonality: they are all hiding something from each other.
Big Little Lies is a book that will have you guessing all the way until the end. A classic who-dun-it murder mystery (with a touch of sparkly drama!), Big Little Lies is about the lies we tell our friends, the lies we tell our families, and – perhaps most hurtful of all – the lies we tell ourselves.
Looking for a new book to read? Check in every Friday for a “Bee Happy” post, where I share reviews of books I’ve read or other book-themed lists.
The Hob-bee Hive 