HBO Waiting for Liane Moriarty Sequel Book Ahead of Possible "Big Little Lies" Third Season
by Peter White
November 12, 2024


HBO chief Casey Bloys said that he was waiting for Liane Moriarty’s sequel book before moving forward on "Big Little Lies" third season.

“[Nicole’s] very excited. They’re all excited. We’re excited. We’re all waiting for the book, which I believe is coming soon, but I do not have a copy in my hands,” he said.



Moriarty revealed earlier this fall that she was writing a sequel to her original Big Little Lies book. The book will feature a timejump as well as new characters.

“I’m writing a sequel with all the children as teenagers so now the women are the parents of teens,” she told Radio Times.

https://deadline.com/2024/11/big-little-lies-hbo-liane-moriarty-sequel-book-season-3-1236174576/

"Big Little Lies" Author Reveals Major Plot Details of New Book and Season 3
by Marina Watts
March 19, 2026


A sequel to the Big Little Lies book is coming.

A week after author Liane Moriarty announced on March 11 that a follow-up novel to her 2014 bestseller was coming, fans finally have a publishing date to look forward to. Big Little Truths comes out this August, and the book will have a time jump where the elementary school students are now teenagers.

“Right from the beginning, because of the show, there was talk about writing a sequel, but I was never interested right away because you put your characters through so much and it just didn’t make sense to me to write something that followed on directly,” Moriarty told USA Today about why a time jump made sense.




A synopsis for the book reads: "Now, after the principal of the high school receives a severed human finger in the mail, the parents are in an uproar. But Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie have other things to worry about."

"Celeste’s mother-in-law, Mary Louise, is behaving oddly—is it old-age forgetfulness and forthrightness, or something more sinister? Madeline is facing perhaps the biggest challenge of her life, Jane is at a dangerous fork in her marriage, Bonnie has realized there’s only so much solace in yoga. And Renata? Renata is living her best life—revenge is sweet."

"When a strange man begins lurking around the school asking supposedly innocent questions, this tightly connected group of women must finally face the full repercussions of the big little truths they have and haven’t shared with their kids. Because the stakes are now much higher than not being invited to an ice-skating show—and the ice has never been thinner for any of them."




The author also confirmed that the book will serve as the basis for the third season of the HBO show, but Moriarty will be "hands off" from the show.

However, she noted one of the actresses' portrayals had an impact on her writing this time around.

“It’s all Laura Dern’s fault because she was so amazing as Renata, it was impossible for me to not give her a bigger role also in this book,” Moriarty said. “You couldn’t put Renata in a corner.”

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