Finished: Big Little Lies (Moriarty). A page-turner about a bunch of mums (including the "blonde bobs", as the go-getter, bob hair-cutted pta moms are called, lol) at an Australian school whose children are about to begin kindergarten. When the daughter of the top dog mum at the school, Renata, reluctantly points out the son of the new-to-the area mum, Jane, as the child who bullied her on orientation day, then sides are quickly drawn with one group of moms on one side and the larger, richer, go-gettier group of moms on the other. As the "outsiders", Madeline, Celeste and Jane form a close friendship, but each has their own troubles. Celeste, the beautiful, rich mother of twins boys who everyone envies, is secretly in a physically abusive relationship with her husband, Perry. Madeline is happy in her second marriage, but having trouble with her 14 year old daughter who she raised as a single mom when her husband up and left them, unable to handle the responsibilities of being a new dad. Said first husband is now in the picture with his new, younger wife and their kindergarten daughter is about to start school with all the rest of them, and now he's a hands on dad. Jane, a single mom, has never told Ziggy who her father is because he was a product of a one-night stand gone bad...not a rape, but a sexual experience that turned rough. The other group of go-getter moms become laser focused on getting Ziggy kicked out of the school because Renata's daughter, Amabelle (yes, with an "m" not an "n") singled him out. Amabelle is a sweet little girl who is too frightened of the real bully to tell the truth, and Ziggy actually befriends Amabelle and, though he is relentlessly persecuted by this group of adults, he doesn't tell his own mother who the real bully is. We do find out in the end, but it almost becomes secondary as the violence of Celeste's marriage comes to a head at the school parent trivia night and someone ends up dead. The whole book flashes back to let us in a piece at a time on who is murdered and whodunnit. It's a nice little page-turner, perfect for my treadmill walking. :-) Oh, and as a nice bonus at the end, Renata actually, very humbly, apologizes to both Jane and Ziggy when she finds out who the real bully was.