--- product_id: 60677729 title: "Little Fires Everywhere: 'Outstanding' Matt Haig" price: "€ 12.55" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/60677729-little-fires-everywhere-outstanding-matt-haig store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Netflix adaptation buzz Top 500 Women's Lit Page-turning drama Little Fires Everywhere: 'Outstanding' Matt Haig **Price:** € 12.55 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🔥 Dive into the story everyone’s talking about — don’t miss the cultural phenomenon! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Little Fires Everywhere: 'Outstanding' Matt Haig - **How much does it cost?** € 12.55 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/60677729-little-fires-everywhere-outstanding-matt-haig) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Unputdownable Narrative:** A gripping, fast-paced story that keeps you hooked from start to finish. - • **Culturally Relevant Themes:** Explores race, motherhood, adoption, and social privilege with nuance and depth. - • **Complex, Relatable Characters:** Multi-dimensional portrayals that spark conversation and empathy among readers. - • **Critically Acclaimed Bestseller:** Ranked top 500 in Women's Literary Fiction with 4.3-star rating from 182K+ readers. - • **Visual & Cinematic Storytelling:** Rich, vivid descriptions that inspired a popular Netflix series adaptation. ## Overview Little Fires Everywhere is a critically acclaimed, bestselling novel by Celeste Ng that masterfully blends a fast-paced, cinematic narrative with deep explorations of race, family, and social dynamics. Praised by celebrities and readers alike, it’s a must-read for anyone craving a thought-provoking yet emotionally gripping literary experience. ## Description '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 What readers are saying: 'Highly recommended, beautifully written and thought-provoking' 'An engrossing read' 'Absolutely brilliant' 'Great characters, interesting plot that leaves you desperate to read more and written beautifully. I loved it and highly recommend it!' Review: Waffling review - My kind of book. Refreshing to follow teenage characters through the same era I was that age with the music, fashion, telly, technology and other cultural references. This coming of age novel doesn't feel overly YA-ish though with a strong theme of motherhood throughout. I can see how it would work well as a television drama with so many characters, plots and subplots. It's also a very visual book with one character as a photographic artist and descriptions of the Shaker Heights community. At times subtle but never sneaky, Ng lays out opposing views on emotive issues through her characters. There were moments that made me glad to live in the UK in 2018 when reference was made to Elena's employers being good for giving her 6 weeks maternity leave after each child. SIX WEEKS!? Be fair. The plot involving a baby born to a Chinese single mother fighting for custody of her baby from a wealthy white couple broke my heart. My cousin has been through the adoption process and it was so much more thorough and if there had been even a whiff of the birth family wanting to keep the child the adoption wouldn't have gone through. The idea that wealth trumps actually giving birth to a child with zero support from the state is appalling no matter how desperate the couple are or how good they'd be as parents. And don't get me started on race. It's an issue that's threaded throughout but never fully resolved. Which I'm fine with. There's a good courtroom bit that addresses the assumptions of some characters. Elena and her mate with Mirabelle could do with reading Picoult's Small Great Things. They need to check their privilege. The ending was fairly loose and open and I wonder if a sequel could or would work. Set in 2018, the teenage characters would now be in their mid 30s, some would have their own children, how have relationships developed, have the people who didn't want yo be found get found, does SPOILER ALERT May return to the US, what happened to Bebe, did the house get rebuilt, etc. It's about sacrifice, love, teenage relationships (took me back to sneaking around with my boyfriend), families, community, motherhood, power, the impact of newcomers, surrogacy, adoption, race. I've scored it high because I enjoyed it. It might not be the best book in the world ever but star rating' s are a flawed system. Review: Well-written, pacy tale of middle-America - 3.5 Stars rounded up. My sister recommended this as something a bit different to help me out my reading slump. I see it's been made into a Netflix series too, and I can understand why, it is a very cinematic book with a fast-paced story and some intriguing characters. So, we have a nice, middle-class Edward Scissorhands-type American town, and into it come Mia and her daughter Pearl, ready to stir things up. We have the Richardson's three teenage children who are, without knowing it, ripe for being stirred up, and we have Elena Richardson, a woman who plays by the rules, but who kind of sort of would have liked to have been a rebel, if you could be a rebel by playing by the rules. And so the fire is lit under all of them. The story unravels at quite a pace, and jumps backwards and forwards in time, with the perspective/point of view jumping about at about the same rate. I found this a little disconcerting at first, but quickly got used to it. This is a genuine page turner of a story with some very real social issues at the heart of it, not least racism and prejudice. It's the sort of story I can imagine stirred up some 'middle' Americans (I loved the whole thing about the baby dolls). It's really well-written, the characters are three-dimensional, and of course we all relate to Mia and hate Elena - well sort of. I raced through it, and only when I got to the end did I start to fret at some of the plot holes and the issues with the motivation of some of the characters - what on earth was Mr Richardson doing for most of the book, for example. This is a woman's story, so the male characters are a little less well-drawn and a little more plot-creations, but I don't have an issue with that. Thoroughly enjoyable and just the sort of read I needed at the moment. I don't think it would stand up to a second reading, but instead I am launching into the author's earlier book. ## Features - New Store Stock ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 120,514 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 283 in Adoption (Books) 486 in Women's Literary Fiction (Books) 796 in Cultural Heritage Fiction | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 182,213 Reviews | ## Images ![Little Fires Everywhere: 'Outstanding' Matt Haig - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81rcVnz-jQL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Waffling review *by K***R on 26 April 2018* My kind of book. Refreshing to follow teenage characters through the same era I was that age with the music, fashion, telly, technology and other cultural references. This coming of age novel doesn't feel overly YA-ish though with a strong theme of motherhood throughout. I can see how it would work well as a television drama with so many characters, plots and subplots. It's also a very visual book with one character as a photographic artist and descriptions of the Shaker Heights community. At times subtle but never sneaky, Ng lays out opposing views on emotive issues through her characters. There were moments that made me glad to live in the UK in 2018 when reference was made to Elena's employers being good for giving her 6 weeks maternity leave after each child. SIX WEEKS!? Be fair. The plot involving a baby born to a Chinese single mother fighting for custody of her baby from a wealthy white couple broke my heart. My cousin has been through the adoption process and it was so much more thorough and if there had been even a whiff of the birth family wanting to keep the child the adoption wouldn't have gone through. The idea that wealth trumps actually giving birth to a child with zero support from the state is appalling no matter how desperate the couple are or how good they'd be as parents. And don't get me started on race. It's an issue that's threaded throughout but never fully resolved. Which I'm fine with. There's a good courtroom bit that addresses the assumptions of some characters. Elena and her mate with Mirabelle could do with reading Picoult's Small Great Things. They need to check their privilege. The ending was fairly loose and open and I wonder if a sequel could or would work. Set in 2018, the teenage characters would now be in their mid 30s, some would have their own children, how have relationships developed, have the people who didn't want yo be found get found, does SPOILER ALERT May return to the US, what happened to Bebe, did the house get rebuilt, etc. It's about sacrifice, love, teenage relationships (took me back to sneaking around with my boyfriend), families, community, motherhood, power, the impact of newcomers, surrogacy, adoption, race. I've scored it high because I enjoyed it. It might not be the best book in the world ever but star rating' s are a flawed system. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well-written, pacy tale of middle-America *by M***E on 29 May 2020* 3.5 Stars rounded up. My sister recommended this as something a bit different to help me out my reading slump. I see it's been made into a Netflix series too, and I can understand why, it is a very cinematic book with a fast-paced story and some intriguing characters. So, we have a nice, middle-class Edward Scissorhands-type American town, and into it come Mia and her daughter Pearl, ready to stir things up. We have the Richardson's three teenage children who are, without knowing it, ripe for being stirred up, and we have Elena Richardson, a woman who plays by the rules, but who kind of sort of would have liked to have been a rebel, if you could be a rebel by playing by the rules. And so the fire is lit under all of them. The story unravels at quite a pace, and jumps backwards and forwards in time, with the perspective/point of view jumping about at about the same rate. I found this a little disconcerting at first, but quickly got used to it. This is a genuine page turner of a story with some very real social issues at the heart of it, not least racism and prejudice. It's the sort of story I can imagine stirred up some 'middle' Americans (I loved the whole thing about the baby dolls). It's really well-written, the characters are three-dimensional, and of course we all relate to Mia and hate Elena - well sort of. I raced through it, and only when I got to the end did I start to fret at some of the plot holes and the issues with the motivation of some of the characters - what on earth was Mr Richardson doing for most of the book, for example. This is a woman's story, so the male characters are a little less well-drawn and a little more plot-creations, but I don't have an issue with that. Thoroughly enjoyable and just the sort of read I needed at the moment. I don't think it would stand up to a second reading, but instead I am launching into the author's earlier book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing Story! Highly recommend *by U***S on 29 March 2018* The book opens with a fire that burnt down the house of Richardson’s, one of the residents of Shaker Heights district. Izzy, the rebel child of the household is nowhere to be found and they guess that she set the house on fire. She lighted up ‘little fires everywhere’ to make sure the house burns down. But, we don’t know if this is true, or why. And the story goes back for us to come back to find out if and why she did it. The novel starts with an intriguing event, that makes you immediately curious about who this ‘Izzy’ is, why on earth she set the house on fire, what hapenned!!! I really like books when the story grips you from the first page, and Celeste Ng did this perfectly. I was hooked from the beginning to end. Second thing that’s really good about the book is the characters. I loved Mia and Izzy. Even now I want to know more, read more, talk more about them. They are interesting and gripping. The way Ng built and revealed the history, their memories, the events affected their characters was very well done. The story evolved into something really emotional and thought-provoking, which I didn’t expect as well. It makes you think about many things at the same time. Dynamics of society, ethics of motherhood, and more. I would highly recommend this book. It’s very rich, enjoyable and gripping. ## Frequently Bought Together - Little Fires Everywhere - Everything I Never Told You --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/60677729-little-fires-everywhere-outstanding-matt-haig](https://www.desertcart.be/products/60677729-little-fires-everywhere-outstanding-matt-haig) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-07-12*