Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre, and television. Her five novels—Unravelling Oliver, Lying in Wait, Skin Deep, Our Little Cruelties, and Strange Sally Diamond—have each been #1 bestsellers. She has won five Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature. Her books are sold in more than 40 countries around the world. She lives in Dublin.
From the internationally bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond comes a twisted suspense novel about two sisters and the scandal that changes their lives forever.
If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened.
Sixteen-year-old Ruby and her older sister Erin live comfortably in their Boston home with their pastor father and Irish mother, until one day Ruby is involved in an incident with Erin’s boyfriend, Milo, that causes her family to implode. Ruby and her mother leave in a hurry for Ireland, while Erin and her father stay behind.
As the story alternates between Erin and Ruby’s perspectives over decades, two very different women emerge. Erin struggles with trust issues. Ruby is set on a course of self-destruction.
When the truth threatens to emerge from this “brilliantly dark and tangled web” (Graham Norton), the sisters’ lives may be upended all over again. Can either of them ever truly recover from the events of that day in 1999?
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Hosted by Liz Nugent
Starring Karma Brown, Patricia Finn, Tayari Jones, Jennifer Lambert, Canisia Lubrin, Liz Nugent, Carol Off, Ruth Ozeki & Stephanie Sinclair. Hosted by Shelley Youngblut
Starring Kurt Andersen, Kim Fu, Richard Kelly Kemick, Liz Nugent, Carol Off, Joss Richard & Daniel Zomparelli. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
Starring Karma Brown, Patricia Finn, Jenny Jackson & Liz Nugent. Hosted by Ali Bryan
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