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Big Little Lies: where to start reading
Adapts Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
DramaMystery
2 seasons
on screen
1 book
to read
Diverges
from the books
After Season 1, in the books you are
at Big Little Lies.
through the end of the novel.
The first season adapts the whole of Liane Moriarty's novel.
Start reading at Big Little Lies (the complete novel)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Season 1 draws on this book. Read the full story:
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty
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What the show changed here
- ChangedThe setting moves from Moriarty's Australian seaside town to Monterey, California, swapping Australian school-gate culture for American.
- InventedThe show invents an affair for Madeline with a community-theatre director that has no counterpart in the novel.
- ChangedJane's search for her assaulter is reworked: she confronts a man who shares only his name, with no book connection until later.
- InventedThe husbands, Perry especially, get far more screen time than the book, which stays inside the women's viewpoints.
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Season 1 adapts Liane Moriarty's novel; season 2 continues beyond it from a story Moriarty wrote for the show, so there is no published novel to read for it.
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