About the Book
"I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph!" --Freida McFadden, New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid "Enthralling...it's a testament to Nugent's storytelling prowess and gift for well-timed plot twists that, even knowing there's a train wreck looming, readers won't be able to look away. This is a masterpiece." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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?
About the Author :
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 and she has won five Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature. Her books are sold in more than forty countries around the world. She lives in Dublin. Visit her at LizNugent.com or follow her on Instagram @LizNugentWriter. 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 and she has won five Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature. Her books are sold in more than forty countries around the world. She lives in Dublin. Visit her at LizNugent.com or follow her on Instagram @LizNugentWriter. Alana Kerr Collins is an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. She is also an actor, puppeteer, and singer who studied at the Impulse Company in London and earned a BA in drama and English at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She starred in the short films Rachel 9000, The Deal, and Veritas and has appeared in several television series, including Emu and Big City Park.
Helen Laser is an award-winning NYC-based voice actor and artist. Helen narrates for Audible, Penguin Random House, Tantor, and Hachette, and is the voice of Annie's Homegrown. She has appeared on television, in award-winning films that have graced the festival circuit worldwide, and in various stage performances. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, a published writer, an appreciator of all things spooky, and likes to paint and play various instruments, including auto-harp, accordion, ukulele, and clarinet. Jennifer Fitzgerald has worked in television, theater, radio, and audiobook narration for over twelve years. The recipient of an honors degree in English literature and drama studies, she has worked as a producer for BBC audiobooks. GM Hakim (he/him) is a full-time voice actor who does voice-over work in e-learning, audiobooks, animation, audio guides, documentaries and docuseries, video games, audio dramas, corporate narration, explainers, promos, and more. GM has voiced projects for Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, MARVEL SNAP, Novartis, EF (Education First), Spotify, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Tantor, Dreamscape Media, The US Federal Highway Administration, Cleana, HAWK University in Germany, Chateau de Bouteville in France, Nacon, and the Chaffee County Visitor's Bureau in Colorado. GM works from his professional home studio just outside of Boston. He did his voice acting training and coaching at Abacus Entertainment in New York City, where he also recorded his demos. He studied broadcast and print journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where he had a weekly radio show on WAER-FM for three years. He taught middle school English, theater, and improv from 2005-2023, mostly in Montessori schools. When he's not working in voice-over, you can find him writing, playing board games, playing guitar, leading Dungeons & Dragons games as a Dungeon Master, riding his bike, reading, cooking, and spending time with his wife and daughter.
