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Flight attendant Allegra Patel loves her job, but today is her twenty-eighth birthday and she’d rather not be placating a plane full of passengers unhappy about a long delay. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C desperate not to miss his daughter’s musical. A harried mother frantically tries to keep her toddler and baby quiet. Honeymooners still in their wedding finery dream of their new lives, while a chatty emergency room nurse dreams of retirement.

Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret - something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive....

The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They’re killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after 50 years of marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are Stan and Joy so miserable?

Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later, he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single ever since. Now, Thomas is back in her life because Sophie has unexpectedly inherited his aunt Connie's house on Scribbly Gum Island - home of the famously unsolved Munro Baby mystery.

Alice Love is 29, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital, where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over - she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time.

Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s 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. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.

Ellen O’Farrell is a professional hypnotherapist who works out of the eccentric beachfront home she inherited from her grandparents. It’s a nice life, except for her tumultuous relationship history. She’s stoic about it, but at this point, Ellen wouldn’t mind a lasting one. When she meets Patrick, she’s optimistic. He’s attractive, single, employed, and best of all, he seems to like her back. Then comes that dreaded moment: He thinks they should have a talk. Braced for the worst, Ellen is pleasantly surprised.

Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be.

Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there’s anything they can count on, it’s each other. Clementine and Erika are each other’s oldest friends. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. But theirs is a complicated relationship, so when Erika mentions a last minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors, Tiffany and Vid, Clementine and Sam don’t hesitate.

Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful 33-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Together, laughter, drama, and mayhem follow them, but apart, each is dealing with her own share of ups and downs. Lyn has organized her life into one big checklist, Cat has just learned a startling secret about her marriage, and Gemma, who bolts every time a relationship hits the six-month mark, holds out hope for lasting love.

¿Un asesinato? ¿Un trágico accidente? ¿O simplemente unos buenos padres que no se están portando tan bien como deberían? Lo que es indiscutible es que alguien ha muerto. Pero ¿quién hizo qué? Disfruta del audiolibro Big Little Lies narrado por Cony Madera, la voz de Celeste Wright (personaje interpretado por Nicole Kidman en la serie de HBO).

Imagina que tu marido te hubiera escrito una carta para que la abrieras después de su muerte. Imagina también que la carta contuviera su secreto más oscuro y mejor guardado, capaz de destruir vuestra vida juntos y también vidas ajenas. Imagina, entonces, que encontraras la carta mientras tu marido todavía estuviera en plenitud de facultades. Cecilia Fitzpatrick lo tiene todo: lleva un negocio boyante, es un bastión de su pequeña comunidad y una esposa y madre abnegada.

Nicola Berry's life is turned upside down the day a man from another planet comes to Earth on a strange mission. He's looking for somebody to travel back to his home planet and convince their stuck-up princess not to turn Earth into her planet's giant garbage dump. When Nicola is chosen as the Earthling Ambassador, she's not sure that she's up to the task. Can Nicola and her friends save the planet in time? Or will the nasty Princess Petronella cover Earth in a galactic ton of garbage?

Audible Exclusive. Liane Moriarty drops by to talk about her career.

Para todos los que los conocen, los Delaney son una familia envidiable. Incluso después de todos estos años, los padres, Stan y Joy, siguen teniendo una química evidente y continúan arrasando en las pistas de tenis. Y ahora que han vendido su exitosa academia tienen todo el tiempo del mundo para relajarse y disfrutar de la vida. Sus cuatro hijos nunca llegaron a triunfar en el deporte, aunque han acabado teniendo éxito a su manera y la posibilidad de que empiecen a aparecer nietos en el horizonte llena a todos de felicidad.

Nicola Berry and her friends have barely caught their breath from their last trip to space when they are called on another intergalactic adventure! This time, they're on their way to Shobble, a beautiful snowy rainbow planet where nothing bad ever happens - or so they say. It turns out there is trouble brewing beneath this glittery exterior, and Nicola is put in a tough position. Should she risk defying the planet's dangerous commander-in-chief to help the people of Shobble?

Nicola and her friends' whirlwind tour of the galaxy isn't about to stop! The Space Brigade's third adventure takes them to a strange pair of planets that couldn't be more different. On one side is a planet covered in volcanoes. On the other side, a beautiful place full of daydreamy poets. Nicola and the Space Brigade find themselves caught in the middle of a war between the two, and must find a way to make peace before it's too late!

Al despertar tras un leve accidente, los primeros pensamientos de Alice son para el hijo que espera y para su marido Nick, que estará preocupado. Pero ni ella está embarazada ni Nick está en absoluto preocupado; es más, está preparando el divorcio.

Les passagers du vol Hobart-Sydney patientent à bord de l’avion dans l’attente du décollage. Parmi eux, une mère dépassée par ses deux enfants, deux jeunes mariés en lune de miel, un père de famille qui rentre chez lui, un homme en deuil, une infirmière proche de la retraite, une hôtesse de l’air qui fête son anniversaire. Des étrangers destinés à ne jamais se revoir. Mais voici que, tout à coup, une petite femme discrète aux cheveux gris se lève de son siège et s’adresse à chacun d’eux pour leur annoncer la date et les circonstances exactes de leur mort.

Meurtre ou tragique accident ? À la fête de l'école, quelqu'un a trouvé la mort. Mais qui est vraiment responsable du drame ? Trois femmes à la croisée des chemins, des ex-maris et leurs nouvelles épouses, des familles recomposées (ou décomposées), qui cachent tous ces redoutables petits mensonges que l'on se raconte à soi-même pour continuer de vivre.