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Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent

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Also by Liz Nugent:

Strange Sally Diamond, August 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Strange Sally Diamond, July 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Little Cruelties, August 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Little Cruelties, November 2020
Paperback / e-Book
Lying in Wait, March 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Lying in Wait, June 2018
Hardcover / e-Book

Little Cruelties
Liz Nugent

Gallery/Scout Press
August 2021
On Sale: July 27, 2021
352 pages
ISBN: 1501189697
EAN: 9781501189692
Kindle: B084G9KNFB
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Thriller Psychological

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.

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