Big Little Truths

Ten years have passed since the fatal quiz night at Pirriwee High, and Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata and Bonnie are still tied together by what happened there. Their children are now teenagers at the same school on Sydney's Pirriwee Peninsula.

A threatening package turns up at the school, and alarm moves quickly through the parents. Each of the five women is already carrying a private problem. Madeline faces what may be the biggest challenge of her life, and Jane's marriage has reached a crossroads.

Celeste worries about Mary Louise, her mother-in-law, who has started acting oddly. Bonnie finds that her old ways of coping no longer work. Renata, meanwhile, is out for revenge.

Then a stranger starts hanging around the school, putting apparently harmless questions to people. The women have to reckon with what they have told their children and what they have kept back.

The sequel to Big Little Lies moves between several points of view and across more than one timeline. Comedy runs alongside the mystery, and the question the book turns on is how much the teenagers already know.