Strange Sally Diamond
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Publisher Description
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From the Number 1 bestselling author of Our Little Cruelties and Skin Deep
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 worried police, but also a sinister voice from a past she has no memory of. As she begins to discover the horrors of her childhood, recluse Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, finding independence, and learning that people don't always mean what they say.
But when messages start arriving from a stranger who knows far more about her past than she knows herself, Sally's life will be thrown into chaos once again . . .
Praise for Liz Nugent
'The finest psychological thriller writer currently at work - no one gets under the skin of monstrous characters like she does' Tammy Cohen
'What a terrific storyteller Liz Nugent is! Brilliantly structured, fluently told, rich in unsettling incident and pulsing with dark, tumultuous energy' Irish Times
'Liz Nugent is a force to be reckoned with' Lisa Jewell
©2023 Liz Nugent (P)2023 Penguin Audio
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Sally Diamond is the sheltered loner anchoring Liz Nugent’s latest thriller. The story starts apace with Sally disposing of her adoptive father’s dead body in a rubbish bag—a literal interpretation of a glib remark that brings the police to her doorstep. Then it kicks into high gear when she finally learns the horrifying circumstances of her true parentage. The tension peaks again when a familiar teddy bear from an anonymous sender arrives. Events unfold through Sally in the present timeline and through Peter (the half-brother she didn’t know she had) for the period leading up to and beyond her birth. Nugent tends to put her readers into the minds of unequivocal villains, and Peter’s perspective is typically complex. Sally, meanwhile, is refreshingly endearing, well-intended and often funny, even as she struggles with the appropriate (or at least, socially acceptable) emotional response to each devastating revelation. At once a coming-of-age story and a disturbing psychological mystery, Diamond’s twists and turns will keep you hooked until the end.