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    Study Guide for Book Clubs: Big Little Lies: Study Guides for Book Clubs, #26
    Study Guide for Book Clubs: Big Little Lies: Study Guides for Book Clubs, #26
    Study Guide for Book Clubs: Big Little Lies: Study Guides for Book Clubs, #26
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    Study Guide for Book Clubs: Big Little Lies: Study Guides for Book Clubs, #26

    By Kathryn Cope

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    No book group should be without this companion guide to Liane Moriarty's bestselling novel, Big Little Lies. Guides for Book Clubs are designed to help you get the absolute best from your book group meetings. An invaluable reference tool, they provide a wealth of useful information on your chosen novel. This companion to Big Little Lies includes useful literary context; a full plot summary, discussion of themes; detailed character notes; 18 thought-provoking discussion questions; recommended further reading and a quick quiz.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKathryn Cope
    Release dateFeb 23, 2018
    ISBN9781386742678
    Study Guide for Book Clubs: Big Little Lies: Study Guides for Book Clubs, #26
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    Kathryn Cope

    Kathryn Cope graduated in English Literature from Manchester University and obtained her master’s degree in contemporary fiction from the University of York. She is the author of Study Guides for Book Clubs and the HarperCollins Offical Book Club Guide series. She lives in the Staffordshire Moorlands with her husband, son and dog.

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      Study Guide for Book Clubs - Kathryn Cope

      Introduction

      There are few things more rewarding than getting together with a group of like-minded people and discussing a good book. Book club meetings, at their best, are vibrant, passionate affairs. Each member will bring along a different perspective and ideally there will be heated debate.

      A surprising number of book club members, however, report that their meetings have been a disappointment. Even though their group loved the book they were discussing, they could think of astonishingly little to say about it. Failing to find interesting discussion angles for a book is the single most common reason for book group discussions to fall flat. Most book groups only meet once a month and a lacklustre meeting is frustrating for everyone.

      Study Guides for Book Clubs were born out of a passion for reading groups. Packed with information, they take the hard work out of preparing for a meeting and ensure that your book group discussions never run dry. How you choose to use the guides is entirely up to you. The author biography and style sections provide background information that may be useful to share with your group at the beginning of your meeting. The all-important list of discussion questions, which will probably form the core of your meeting, can be found towards the end of this guide. To support your responses to the discussion questions, you may find it helpful to refer to the ‘Themes’ and ‘Character’ sections.

      A plot synopsis is provided as an aide-memoire if you need to recap on the finer points of the plot. There is also a quick quiz - a fun way to test your knowledge and bring your discussion to a close. Finally, if this was a book that you particularly enjoyed, the guide concludes with a list of books similar in style or subject matter.

      Be warned, this guide contains spoilers. Please do not be tempted to read it before you have read the original novel as plot surprises will be well and truly ruined.

      Kathryn Cope, 2017

      Big Little Lies

      Pirriwee Public Primary is the kind of school most parents would love to send their children to. Set on a picturesque Australian peninsular, it boasts views of the ocean and overlooks one of the top ten most beautiful beaches in the world. As Big Little Lies begins, however, something has gone badly wrong at this apparently idyllic primary school. When several brawling Elvis Presley look-alikes spill out onto the schoolyard, it becomes evident that a fancy-dress fundraiser has turned decidedly nasty. The events of ‘Trivia Night’ then take a turn for the worse when one of the parents unexpectedly dies. In the aftermath, the suspicions of the police are aroused as witness statements contradict one another and seem to suggest a whole range of different possibilities and potential murder motives. The primary school, it seems, is a hotbed of parental rivalries and hostilities and, untangling the truth of what really happened that night is likely to prove a very complicated business.

      Having set up the premise of her novel, Liane Moriarty takes the reader back six months earlier to gradually reveal the events leading to that fateful night. Deliberately concealing the identity of the recently deceased, she describes the build-up to the possible murder through a number of different character perspectives and witness statements, dropping in some red herrings along the way. Her main characters are Madeline, Celeste and Jane, whose children attend kindergarten together. All very different, the three friends face a range of parenting challenges from single-motherhood to bullying and the complications of step-families. Unbeknown to Madeline, however, Jane and Celeste both harbour secrets and, as the title suggests, the ‘little’ lies they tell take on a greater and darker significance as time goes on.

      While celebrating the power of female friendships, the novel also highlights how unkind women are capable of being to each other, particularly when children are involved. Anyone who has ever stood at the school gates will appreciate Moriarty’s humorous portrayal of the world of parental rivalry and over-involved mothering. They may also recognise the much darker themes that are highlighted. Laying bare the malice and prejudice that lie behind ‘harmless’ gossip, the author illustrates the way parents are quick to condemn bullying in children while freely indulging in it themselves. Another inspiration for the darker aspects of the novel came from a radio interview Liane Moriarty heard focussing on domestic violence. When the interviewee admitted that, even as an adult, she hid under the bed during her parents’ fights the comment inspired Moriarty to

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