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Brought to you by Penguin.

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023**


**WINNER Crime Novel of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023**

**SHORTLISTED for The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award**

**SHORTLISTED for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2024**


Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died.

Now Sally is the centre of attention, not only from the hungry media and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she cannot remember. As she begins to discover the horrors of her childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends and big decisions, and learning that people don't always mean what they say.

But who is the man observing Sally from the other side of the world? And why does her neighbour seem to be obsessed with her? Sally's trust issues are about to be severely challenged . . .

'In Sally Diamond, Nugent has given us an astounding creation with a singular voice . . . an absorbing, twisty, compulsive psychological thriller with surprising humour and pathos' Sunday Independent

'Strikingly well-observed and consistently surprising' The Times

'Incredible' Sara Cox

©2023 Liz Nugent (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

Magnificent . . .. Liz Nugent is a treasure
Shari Lapena
I loved every damn second of it
Lisa Jewell
Surprising, moving and shockingly original
Harlan Coben
Strikingly well-observed and consistently surprising
The Times
I devoured [it] . . . It's incredible!
Sara Cox
Liz Nugent has outdone herself. Twisted and twisty, dark and gripping, no one is going to forget Sally Diamond in a hurry!
Graham Norton
In Sally Diamond, Nugent has given us an astounding creation with a singular voice . . . an absorbing, twisty, compulsive psychological thriller with surprising humour and pathos
Sunday Independent
Strange indeed . . . and smart, too! Shocking, disturbing and utterly original, Strange Sally Diamond will grip you from first page to last
Paula Hawkins
If Liz Nugent was a clockmaker she'd be Galileo . . . She is as excellent a writer as anyone living I can think of
Sebastian Barry

Liz Nugent dares to go where many won't. What a compelling storyteller she is. Always challenging. I laughed out loud only to recoil from my laughter as the story unfolded. For this is wickedly dark territory.
And yet amidst the darkness, she allows a light to glimmer - that of a diamond'

Sarah Winman

User Reviews

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Eleri 24/03/2023
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A fantastic written story quite dark but doesn’t take away the gripping storyline
Hellsbells 15/03/2023

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