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Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty announces highly-anticipated sequel

Published 11:28 30 Mar 2026 BST

Kat O'Connor

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Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty will publish a sequel to her international bestseller Big Little Lies this August.

The #1 New York Times bestseller became one of the most-talked-about books when it was published in 2014, and became even bigger when the series starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon aired in 2017.

And with a third season reportedly underway, author Liane Moriarty has returned to the world of Big Little Lies with a highly-anticipated sequel.

Big Little Truths will be published on August 27th.

The book synopsis reads:

What's worse than a big little lie? An even bigger little truth . . . It has been a decade since the ill-fated quiz night at Pirriwee High. A man died. Accusations of murder were rife. For mothers and best friends Madeline, Celeste, and Jane, the fallout still feels like it happened yesterday. Never mind that their kids have grown into grouchy teenagers with too many hormones.

Or that, as their frazzled mothers, they don't have enough. Because life always has its challenges, big and small. So here's Madeline - carefully planning her 50th birthday party, little realising she's about to be upstaged. And Jane - so busy congratulating herself on her happy marriage to Tom, she hasn't noticed it's not. While Celeste, haunted by memories of her dead husband, fears what her very alive mother-in-law will do next. When the school receives an anonymous package containing a severed human finger, following reports of a creepy man lurking around students, (un-severed) fingers get pointed. Is this mischief, incrimination, or even murder? A lie masquerading as the truth? Or a secret just waiting to come out? What is clear is that the stakes keep getting higher, and that the truth will always hurt someone ...

Pre-order it here.