Little Fires Everywhere
'Outstanding' Matt Haig
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4.1 • 655 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A MAJOR AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES
'Just read it . . . Outstanding' Matt Haig
'To say I love this book is an understatement . . . It moved me to tears' Reese Witherspoon
'Beautifully written, completely charming, and extremely wise on the subject of adolescence and influence' Nick Hornby
Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.
Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.
When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town - and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost . . .
And if you loved Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere, pre-order Celeste Ng's brilliant new novel, Our Missing Hearts, now
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We were huge fans of Celeste Ng’s debut novel (the deeply moving and subtle murder mystery Everything I Never Told You), so we set about her follow-up with relish. We were right to be excited: Ng excels again with another deftly intricate tale. She conjures such warmth and detail in her story of a beguiling mother-daughter pair arriving to a Cleveland suburb and forever shaking up the lives of the family from whom they rent a home. The secrets that eventually tumble forth are shocking, but this isn’t sensationalist fiction. It’s wonderfully measured and richly rewarding.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This novel from Ng (Everything I Never Told You) is both an intricate and captivating portrait of an eerily perfect suburban town with its dark undertones not-quite-hidden from view and a powerful and suspenseful novel about motherhood. When the eccentric and itinerant artist Mia Warren and her 15-year-old daughter, Pearl, move into a rental house in Shaker Heights, Ohio, one summer, neither they nor their more conventional, affluent landlords, the Richardsons, have any reason to anticipate how dangerously enmeshed the two families will become. Before long, Pearl, enthralled by her first shot at a "normal" life, is spending every day with three of the four Richardson children, Lexie, Moody, and Trip, finding a best friend, a suitor, and a lover in turn. Meanwhile, Isabelle, the youngest Richardson teenager, starts heading over to see Mia, offering to work as her assistant but really looking for an escape. As both Mrs. Richardson and Mia Warren overstep their boundaries, Ng explores the complexities of adoption, surrogacy, abortion, privacy, and class, questioning all the while who earns, who claims, and who loses the right to be called a mother. This is an impressive accomplishment.
Customer Reviews
Good read!
I very much enjoyed reading this book and learned to love all of the characters.. I hope there is a follow up!!
Little fires
Fantastic
Believe all the hype
Celeste captures the humanity in everyone. I adored reading this and had to limit my reading so I didn’t finish it all in one weekend. The characters live on and stay with you. If there was ever a moment for understanding how our own confident we’ll meaning actions impacts others this is it. And this is exactly what the book does.