Publish Date |
November 24, 2020 |
Category |
Fiction / Psychological Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological |
Price |
$24.99 |
ISBN: 9781501191312
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: November 24, 2020
“One of the delights, if that is the right word, of this book is how thoroughly the author delves into the details of the family’s world-class dysfunction. . . . Little Cruelties shows how thoroughly families can mess one another up, and how sometimes the greatest mysteries are found within the psyche.”
— The New York Times Book Review“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, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window“Brilliant, engrossing. . . . No one explores the territory between human frailty and madness better than Liz Nugent. Little Cruelties is superb.”
— SHARI LAPENA, author of Someone We Know“Artfully constructed . . . The author’s skillful telling of this multigenerational tragedy has the riveting power of an imminent car crash.”
— Publishers Weekly“The warring siblings of Succession come to mind in the description of Nugent’s latest intrigue, except these brothers are competing for the affection and attention of an imperious matriarch. The narrative flashes back and forth to crucial incidents in the 1970s and 1980s—their teen years—in this delicious psychological suspense. The question is, when all three are unreliable narrators, whose story do you believe?”
— Zoomer“Nugent’s books exist at that very particular crossroads of horror and psychological thriller where the horror exists in the cruelty of human relationships themselves. . . . The sociopathy of characters is as much rooted in the repressed culture of 1980s Ireland as in the figures themselves. No one is rotten to begin with, Nugent knows, but she won’t let us look away from how truly rotten some of us become.”
— CrimeReads“Just as sharp and intelligent as Liz Nugent’s previous releases. . . . This book will get under your skin with the everyday evils it depicts.”
— Crime by the Book“Riveting . . . Melds a hardboiled story with a family drama, leading to a tragedy that will define another generation.”
— Shelf Awareness“Nobody is a mere cliché in Nugent’s clear, propulsive writing, and the author masterfully unveils the damage and hurt behind every motivation, and the petty resentments, delusions, and carelessness that lie behind every nick and cut the family members inflict upon one another over the four decades of her tale.”
— The Sunday Times“Brilliantly structured, fluently told, Liz Nugent’s best book yet.”
— The Irish Times