Our Little Cruelties
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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…
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This is a story about three brothers. It starts with the funeral of one of them (you don’t know which) and goes back over their lives to unravel the mystery. They are all very different and none of them are likeable, and yet I found myself invested in all of them, trying my hardest to like them despite what they did – to each other and more widely. The book explores some serious issues around mental health and addiction, and I felt Nugent did this incredibly well – with both sympathy and clearly lots of research. The story is also…
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