Is there an audiobook of Big Little Truths?

Yes. Big Little Truths has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Liane Moriarty, Caroline Lee, and Ella Le Fournour.

Is Big Little Truths on Kindle Unlimited?

No. Big Little Truths was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on September 16, 2026.

Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty book cover for the Book of the Day womens fiction book review

Our score

4.6/ 5

Outstanding

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EDITION PUBLISHEDAugust 2026

PublisherCrown

Genres

Fiction Women's Fiction Mystery

Themes

Secrets between mothers and their teenage childrenLong friendships tested by a decade of changeAging parents and the fear of losing themMarriage strain in midlife

Big Little Truths

Name: Big Little Truths
Price: 14.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty returns to the women of Big Little Lies a decade later in Big Little Truths, a women's-fiction sequel where the kids are teenagers now and the secrets have gotten bigger. New readers can start here cold; longtime fans finally get the reunion they've been waiting for since the first book's ending.

The Review

Our take

Celeste can't tell whether her mother-in-law, Mary Louise, is simply getting older or whether something else is setting in. It's a small worry tucked inside a louder one. A threatening package turns up at the local high school, and word spreads fast through this corner of Australia.

Ten years on from Big Little Lies, Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie aren't refereeing five-year-olds' birthday parties anymore. Their kids are teenagers now, so the stakes have shifted from invitations to the real thing: drinking, sex, and a stranger loitering near the school gates asking questions that sound harmless and aren't. Moriarty rotates through all five women in turn, and stacking their chapters against each other is where the book does its best work. You see how the same decade landed so differently on each of them. Madeline is up against the hardest stretch of her life, and Moriarty handles it with more restraint than the setup promises. Jane has hit a real fork in her marriage. Bonnie has learned yoga only goes so far. Renata, delightfully, is thriving out of pure spite, and she is the funniest thing in the novel by a wide margin.

The title is really the whole engine. These women have spent a decade managing exactly what their kids know about them, and the book gets interesting when that management fails. Mary Louise's decline, real or imagined, becomes its own reckoning about how much truth belongs between generations, and Moriarty writes it with the same mix she brought to the original: funny about small-town gossip and self-important oncologists on one page, unsettled about aging and marriage on the next. You do not need Big Little Lies fresh in memory to follow this one. New readers get a full introduction; longtime fans get ten years of accumulated history paid out a little at a time.

Why you should read

Fans of the original Big Little Lies ensemble
Readers who like multiple points of view in one novel
Anyone drawn to book club fiction with a mystery thread
Readers who want humor alongside real family strain

What to expect

Alternating chapters told from each woman's point of view
A slow-building mystery plot layered under the family drama
Humor about small-town parenting mixed with real tension
A satisfying entry point even without rereading the first book

The mystery plot is the softer part of the book. The stranger circling the school and the question behind the threatening package resolve too neatly, and the antagonist becomes obvious well before the reveal is supposed to land. What matters more is what that plot does to the women underneath it. Solving somebody else's threat forces all five of them to admit what they have and haven't told their own kids. It's a harder reckoning than any mystery's answer key. Five women who spent a decade curating themselves for their children are finding out that the project was never finished.

Reviewed by Avery · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.6/ 5

Outstanding

Listen to Big Little Truths free with an Audible trial Narrator, runtime & our audio review

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Where to read or listen

Is there an audiobook of Big Little Truths?: Yes. Big Little Truths has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Liane Moriarty, Caroline Lee, and Ella Le Fournour.
Listen to Big Little Truths free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
Is Big Little Truths on Kindle Unlimited?: No. Big Little Truths was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on September 16, 2026.
How much does Big Little Truths cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $14.99, Paperback $33.49, Hardcover $19.88. Prices as of September 17, 2026 at 2:20 AM EDT and may change.

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What is Big Little Truths about?: Celeste can't tell whether her mother-in-law, Mary Louise, is simply getting older or whether something else is setting in. It's a small worry tucked inside a louder one. A threatening package turns up at the local high school, and word spreads fast through this corner of Australia. Ten years on…
Is Big Little Truths worth reading?: We scored Big Little Truths 4.6 out of 5. Liane Moriarty returns to the women of Big Little Lies a decade later in Big Little Truths, a women's-fiction sequel where the kids are teenagers now and the secrets have gotten bigger. New readers can start here cold; longtime fans finally get the reunion they've been waiting…