內容簡介
內容簡介 HBO影集《美麗心計》原著小說!奧斯卡影后妮可基嫚、瑞絲薇絲朋、雪琳伍德利攜手演出「那時候,我只剩下勇敢」熱門導演執導、艾美獎得獎編劇親自執筆 擋不住的魅力!版權熱賣全球 22個國家,暢銷近200萬冊!空降《紐約時報》Top1、Amazon網路書店Top5榮獲Amazon與《科克斯評論》2014年度最佳小說《遇見你之前》作者讚歎:「豐富而瘋狂的劇情反映出人心的複雜與道德議題。」每個人都帶著祕密和面具生活,但時間久了,你,還能面對真正的自己嗎?珍恩,一名有著五歲兒子的神祕單親媽媽,年輕纖瘦,對口香糖上癮,因為某個說不出口的原因,總是四處遷徙,不停駐一處超過半年,現在,她來到平靜的濱海小鎮停留──隨性卻有目的的停留。瑪德琳,活潑開朗,喜愛各種熱鬧,也熱愛衝突,最新的苦惱,是年歲已屆四十,青春期的女兒開始叛逆,還有前夫帶著新老婆搬到她家附近。身為有教養的淑女,她可以客氣有禮地和前夫相處,真的──才怪!瑟麗絲,令人屏息的美麗,老公富有帥氣,一對雙胞胎活潑可愛,堪稱小鎮完美典範,雖然有些微神經質,但這讓她比較像個人。但大家不知道的是,她並不想當完美嬌妻,那讓她有很多話無法說出口,只得千里迢迢跑到郊區找心理醫師傾吐,甚至,在醫師的建議下找起了房子。這天早晨,珍恩在送小孩去學校的路上拯救了腳意外受傷的瑪德琳,巧的是,她們的小孩讀同一個學校,更進而認識瑪德琳的美麗好友──瑟麗絲。三位個性截然不同的女人出乎眾人意料地成為好友,一切似乎都往好的一面進行,但珍恩尚來不及了解家長圈複雜的社會階級,她的小孩卻被指控「欺負同學」……原本,大家帶點祕密和面具生活無可厚非,畢竟誰都想保有尊嚴,不想將自己真正的生活赤裸裸攤在陽光下。但她們沒料到的是,一個五歲小孩的小小謊言會如雪球般越滾越大,不僅戳破所有人的偽裝,還造成全校家長的對立,更甚者,一位家長死了……這是個關於祕密、謊言與人性的故事,最後也讓你不禁想問:我能面對真正的自己嗎?需要忍耐的愛真的是愛?身邊的人臉上的笑容和話語是真的?我真的有公平對待每個人嗎……編輯推薦:「作者擅長用『Gossip』形式,藉由生活小事層層堆疊出角色之間的張力,在細節中鋪陳出人性的複雜與深度,讓你除了讚嘆,還是讚嘆。」本書中文書介出自《小謊言》春光出版社出版THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD, LAURA DERN, ADAM SCOTT, AND ZOË KRAVITZ FROM THE DIRECTOR OF WILD AND DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, JEAN-MARC VALLÉE, AND WRITER DAVID E. KELLEYFrom the author of Truly Madly Guilty and The Husband’s Secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.【走進閱讀世界|迷誠品:專文推薦】標題|劇荒請進!HBO美劇後勁超強,猜不到結局的5部神劇,精彩到最後一刻 ▌#6撰文|Millie 米粒追劇鬧劇荒,看完所有感興趣的Netflix影集後,你可以開始加入HBO的行列,剛追完2021口碑好評的HBO原創影集《東城奇案》決定立馬來整理劇情大逆轉的HBO美劇片單,並附上出於真心話的推薦理由、IMDb評分及觀後影評。☞點此進入迷誠品閱讀文章"
作者介紹
作者介紹 Liane Moriarty is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Three Wishes, Truly Madly Guilty, Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, and What Alice Forgot. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children. Visit the author online at lianemoriarty.com.