Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent. Liz was born in Dublin in 1967.

Published: Nov. 29, 2020, 1 p.m.

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William, Brian, and Luke: three boys bound by blood but split by fate, 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\\u2014those little cruelties\\u2014grow more sinister, more merciless, 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 readers of both sophisticated literary fiction and 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 novels have been celebrated as \\u201ccaptivating\\u201d (People) and \\u201chighly entertaining\\u201d (The Washington Post), as one of the most exciting, perceptive voices in contemporary fiction. In March 2020, just as the country went into lockdown after the pandemic of Covid 19 hit Ireland, Our Little Cruelties was published in Ireland. Nevertheless, it retained the number one spot for 12 out of the next sixteen weeks.It will be published in the UK in paperback in January 2021, and in the USA and Canada under the title \\u2018LITTLE CRUELTIES\\u2019 in November 2020.Aside from writing, Liz has led workshops in writing drama for broadcast in Ireland and New Zealand, she has produced and managed literary salons, interviewed many other writers and curated the literary strand of Skibbereen Arts Festival in July 2016.

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