
'I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single breathless sitting' Jodi Picoult The brilliant new novel by the author of the New York Times bestseller Everything I Never Told You Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer how Isabelle the last of the Richardson children had finally gone around the bend & 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 & no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson whose guiding principal is playing by the rules Enter Mia Warren
- an enigmatic artist & single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl & rents a house from the Richardsons Soon Mia & Pearl become more than just tenants all four Richardson children are drawn to the alluring mother-daughter pair But Mia carries with her a mysterious past & a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community When the Richardsons' friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town & puts Mia & Mrs Richardson on opposing sides Suspicious of Mia & her motives Mrs Richardson becomes determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past But her obsession will come at unexpected & devastating costs to her own family
- & Mia's Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of long-held secrets & the ferocious pull of motherhood-and the danger of believing that planning & following the rules can avert disaster or heartbreak