Our Little Cruelties

Critics Review

• Liz Nugent is a force to be reckoned with

  Lisa Jewell

• Liz Nugent has a gift for filling us with a terrible fascination for truly horrible people

  Val McDermid

• MAGNIFICENT. Her best yet, and that’s really saying something

  Marian Keyes

• A dark jewel of a novel – finely observed, swift and exciting

  AJ Finn

• Dark, beautiful, devastating – pure genius

  Lucy Foley

• Brilliantly observed family life and a plot that is part rollercoaster, part maze. Loved it!

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• A sizzling thriller

  Heat

• Fascinating … Shows how thoroughly families can mess one another up, and how sometimes the greatest mysteries are found within the psyche

  New York Times, Books of the Year 2020

• The finest psychological thriller writer currently at work

  Tammy Cohen

• Disturbing and addictive … You’ll be desperate to get to the bottom of it all

  Crime Monthly

• An uncanny ability to get under the skin of characters … nobody is a mere cliché in Nugent’s clear, propulsive writing

  Sunday Times

• Captivating … A contemporary psychological thriller that will leave you wondering if you ever really know what someone else is thinking – or what goes on behind closed doors

  Sunday Independent

• The brilliant Liz Nugent has done it again … Creepy, compelling and totally addictive

  Erin Kelly

• The tight plotting and brilliant characterisation will keep you absolutely enthralled

  Best

• Deliciously dark and engaging writing … Her fans are in for a real treat

  Jo Spain

• A proper rollicking family saga EPIC of a story shot through with black humour, toxic truths and pathos. Brava

  Sarah Hilary

• This great story of toxic relationships had me up way too late trying to work out who the bad guy was. As always, Liz had me guessing until the end

  Irish Times, Best Books of 2020

• Evocative, vivid, brilliant storytelling from a novelist of powerful gifts

  Joseph O'Connor

• 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

• Stunning … it really got under my skin like no other book

  Patricia Gibney

• Utterly compelling – full of terrible people doing terrible things and I could not have enjoyed it more

  Louise O'Neill

• Unputdownable

  Irish Independent

• Brilliantly written … Highly original, with exceptionally well-drawn characters

  SHOTS Crime and Thriller

• A family drama tinged with thriller that explores all the quiet brutalities siblings inflict on each other. Magnificent

  Sarah Pinborough

• I loved this compelling read

  Dinah Jeffries

• The narcissist mother and her objectionable three sons will draw you into their tangled tale of jealousy and sibling rivalry

  Daily Mail

• [An] incredible achievement … I love her so much … Genius

  Sebastian Barry

• Thrilling, twisty, and darkly fascinating

  My Weekly

• [A] harrowing, and sometimes blackly comic, drama of sibling rivalry

  Sarah Vaughan

• Smart, artful and totally gripping – LOVED IT

  Will Dean

• Loved it … so addictive I read it in two sittings

  Paul Burston

• Gripping, occasionally horrifying and utterly entertaining

  Jane Casey

• A darkly humorous tale

  Hello!

• A total page-turner … The best yet from a superb and skillful writer. Loved it

  Fiona Kidman

• A twisted thriller, reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith

  Guardian

• Bloody brilliant

• Absorbing, beautifully written

  The Times, Crime Books of the Year (Skin Deep)

• A masterful interrogation of a family’s undoing … and a ruthless examination of the pieces left behind

  Sunday Business Post

• Dramatic and compelling … a whodunit and a Greek tragedy all in one … absolutely riveting

  Irish Independent

• Nugent excels at creating a shocking story of a horrible family with huge issues and complexities that keep you hooked to the end

  RTÉ Guide