Our Little Cruelties: A new psychological suspense from the No.1 bestseller
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By Liz Nugent
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‘Liz Nugent is a force to be reckoned with’ Lisa Jewell
‘Brilliantly observed family life and a plot that is part rollercoaster, part maze. Loved it!’ Graham Norton
‘MAGNIFICENT. Her best yet, and that’s really saying something’ Marian Keyes
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Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin.
Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother’s unequal love. As men, the competition continues – for status, money, fame, women …
They each betray each other, over and over, until one of them is dead.
But which brother killed him?
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‘Dark, beautiful, devastating – pure genius’ Lucy Foley
‘[An] incredible achievement … I love her so much … Genius’ Sebastian Barry
‘Liz Nugent has a gift for filling us with a terrible fascination for truly horrible people’ Val McDermid
‘What a terrific storyteller Liz Nugent is! Brilliantly structured, fluently told, rich in unsettling incident and pulsing with dark, tumultuous energy … her best book yet’ Irish Times
‘A dark jewel of a novel – finely observed, swift and exciting’ AJ Finn
‘An uncanny ability to get under the skin of characters … nobody is a mere cliché in Nugent’s clear, propulsive writing’ Sunday Times
‘Creepy, compelling and totally addictive’ Erin Kelly
‘Dramatic and compelling … a whodunit and a Greek tragedy all in one … absolutely riveting’ Irish Independent
‘A masterful interrogation of a family’s undoing … and a ruthless examination of the pieces left behind’ Business Post
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Even the crime writer Val McDermid says this author has the ability to fill the reader with a deep fascination for horrible people, and I agree! The novel begins with three brothers, Will, Brian and Luke at a funeral. One is in the coffin having been killed, most likely by one or both of the others. The reader doesn’t find out who is dead, or who killed him until virtually the last page. The boys were raised in Dublin by their mother, who divided her love for her sons very unevenly. She adored Will; was indifferent to Brian; and pretty well loathed her youngest, Luke. They grew up competing for her affection and remain fiercely competitive as adults. The story of their lives is absolutely gripping and the characters (however horrible) are brilliantly well drawn. For sheer power of imagination and ability to grip me I can't give this anything less than 4-Stars (and I'm a notoriously harsh reviewer!).
Review by: Freyja
