Strange Sally Diamond

Description

The past can never be fully forgotten in this exhilarating new novel from the author of Our Little Cruelties 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 of which she has no memory. 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 . . .

Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre and television. Her four novels - Unravelling Oliver , Lying in Wait , Skin Deep and Our Little Cruelties have each been Number One bestsellers and she has won four Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature. She lives in Dublin.

An extraordinary book. Compulsive reading, with one of the most complex, intriguing and moving characters I've ever encountered in fiction -- Clare Mackintosh My God what a brilliant book! -- Shari Lapena It creeped me out (in a good way). Think Room and The Collector but add a dazzling/unique main character and encroaching dread. Terrific -- Ian Rankin So, so good! Sally gets under your skin and worms her way into your heart. I didn't want it to end -- Jane Fallon Such a terrific read . . . [Sally is] an amazing character -- Anthony Horowitz