NOW A GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO SERIESSTARRINGREESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZO KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEP

From the author ofNine Perfect Strangers,Apples Never Fall, andThe Husbands Secretcomes the #1New York Timesbestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.

A murder…A tragic accident…Or just parents behaving badly? Whats indisputable is that someone is dead.

Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. Shes funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny.