Little Cruelties
Liz Nugent
(Author)
Description
Hailed by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell as "a force to be reckoned with," Liz Nugent is back with a powerful and unsettling new novel that will invite comparison to the bitter relationships in HBO's blockbuster series Succession, as it follows three brothers, bound by blood but split by fate, and delves into the many ways families can wreak emotional havoc across generations. All three of the Drumm brothers were at the funeral. But only one of them was in the coffin. William, Brian, and Luke: three boys, born a year apart, trained from birth by their wily mother to compete for her attention. They play games, as brothers do...yet even after the Drumms escape into the world beyond their windows, those games--those little cruelties--grow more sinister, more merciless, and more dangerous. And with their lives entwined like the strands of a noose, only two of the brothers will survive. Crisply written and quickly paced, perfect for fans of breathtaking suspense, Little Cruelties gazes unflinchingly into the darkness: the darkness collecting in the corners of childhood homes, hiding beneath marriage beds, clasped in the palms of two brothers shaking hands. And it confirms Liz Nugent--whose work has invited comparisons to Patricia Highsmith and Barbara Vine and has been celebrated as captivating (People) and highly entertaining (The Washington Post)--as one of the most exciting, perceptive voices in contemporary fiction.Product Details
Price
$28.00
$25.76
Publisher
Gallery/Scout Press
Publish Date
November 10, 2020
Pages
352
Dimensions
6.1 X 9.1 X 1.4 inches | 1.05 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781501189685
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About the Author
Liz Nugent is the author whose debut novel, Unravelling Oliver, won the Crime Fiction Prize in the 2014 Irish Book Awards. Her second novel, Lying in Wait, went straight to number one on the Irish bestseller charts, remained there for nearly two months, and won her a second Irish Book Award. She has worked in Irish film, theater, and television for most of her adult life. She is an award-winning writer of radio and television drama and has also written prize-winning short stories both for children and adults.
Reviews
"A dark jewel of a novel, fire flickering in its depths and light lining its edges. ...no other crime novelist of the past decade has rivaled Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, or Gillian Flynn. [Little Cruelties is] a tragedy of evil power, crisply written and quickly paced; above all, [it's] a thriller, swift and exciting and built like a carnival house, all false walls and trapdoors."--A.J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window