The novel found its way to the New York Times Bestsellers List in August of the same year and won the Davitt Award, a literary prize presented annually by the Sisters in Crime Australia association, in 2015. Celeste Ng's book adaptation, on the other hand, hit the television screes in 2020 and the story ran its course in 8 parts.īig Little Lies is Liane Moriarty's most prominent work to date and it was published in 2014, her sixth -chronologically- work. Moriarty's novel adaptation was first aired in 2017 and its first season was completed in the course of 7 episodes, while the second season was released in 2019, also consisting of equal number of installments. Both shows were cherished by the audiences, though it must be said that Big Little Lies also earned the heartfelt praise of the critics too, while Little Fires Everywhere received mixed reviews for reasons that I will attempt to explain later in this article. Both books -and the television series- further explore the concept of motherhood and the various, even sometimes conflicting, interpretations attributed to it by contemporary women, sexism, meticulously concealed racism and a number of others.
Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng are two of the most auspicious female writers of their generation and their novels, Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere respectively, share many similarities in the sense that they both concentrate on the lives of upper-class families and tread on the scorching themes of domestic abuse as well as the parental oppression and bigotry which inevitably leads to disrupted communication with their children.
While one can't complain about the existence of TV shows centered around womanhood and focusing on the challenges that females face in our times, there are few authors, either novelists or screenwriters, who actually succeed in capturing the subtle nuances of today's complex family relationship dynamics and the role of the mother within today's shifting reality and emergence of new familial structures. WARNING: The article below may contain spoilers.
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