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Big little lies moriarty5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Madeline is the glue that holds everything together in this story, and she’s by far my favourite character. ![]() At first these asides can be both confusing and off-putting, but as the character developments hook you in, the foreshadowing in these asides starts to add to the intensity of what’s transpiring.īig Little Lies rotates between the perspectives of three mothers Madeline, Jane and Celeste. The asides are mainly quirky subtexts that add to the soap opera like effect of the drama as it plays out. These asides feature some of parents from the school gossiping during an investigation carried out by a detective. Moriarty builds up to this act of violence using short asides at the beginning and/or end of chapters. Big Little Lies takes the maliciousness one step further with a tale about a group of Kindergarten parents that ends in violence on a school trivia night. Perhaps it was her ability to subtly make light of people’s malicious intent. ![]() There was something about her writing style that appealed to me. Last year I read Liane Moriarty’s The Husband’s Secret and loved it. ![]()
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