<Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Penguin Publishing </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 978 - 0 - 399 - 16706 - 5 </Td> </Tr> <P> Big Little Lies is a 2014 novel written by Liane Moriarty . It was published in July 2014 by Penguin Publishing . The novel made the New York Times Best Seller list . </P> <P> Jane, a single mother, is on her way to Pirriwee Public School, where her son Ziggy is starting kindergarten . On the way, she meets Madeline, another mother with a daughter of the same age . Madeline's friend Celeste is also sending her twin sons, Max and Josh, to school . The two strike up a friendship with Jane . All three of them have their own problems: Madeline is resentful that her daughter from her previous marriage is growing close to her ex-husband's new wife, Bonnie; Celeste is physically abused by her rich banker husband, Perry; and Jane was raped and left to raise her son Ziggy on her own . To make matters worse for her, Ziggy is accused of bullying a classmate on his first day of school . </P>

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