Liane Moriarty pens 'Big Little Lies' sequel 'Big Little Truths'

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Published August 26, 2026 at 11:59 AM EDT

The cover of "Big Little Truths" and author Liane Moriarty. (Courtesy of Crown Currency and Über Photography)

Liane Moriarty‘s 2014 novel “Big Little Lies” was not only a best-seller, but it also spawned an Emmy-winning HBO series.

Now, Moriarty has written a sequel: “Big Little Truths.” She joins Here & Now‘s Emiko Tamagawa to talk about the book.

Book excerpt: ‘Big Little Truths’

By Liane Moriarty

Excerpted from “Big Little Truths” by Liane Moriarty. Copyright © 2026 by Liane Moriarty. Published in the United States by Crown Currency, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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