Our Little Cruelties
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Narrated by:
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Sam O'Mahony
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Stephen Hogan
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Paul Hickey
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Dermot Crowley
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Mary-Lou McCarthy
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By:
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Liz Nugent
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin.
Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother's love, but she is unable and unwilling to love all of them.
As adults, the competition continues. One brother always has what another one wants - status, money, success, a woman, the love of a child, his mother's attention.
But maybe there's a chance to even things up. Perhaps with one brother gone there would be more to go around.
Which will it be?
©2019 Liz Nugent (P)2019 Penguin AudioWhat listeners say about Our Little Cruelties
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- Anonymous User
- 21-04-2024
Fraught family dynamics
Excellent cast narration of a devastating story of fraught family dynamics from unique perspectives. Compulsive listening.
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- Anne V. Hammond
- 12-05-2020
worth the effort
the story is narrated three times, once by each brother which should be boring and repetitive. However it's actually fascinating to hear various incidents from two or three different perspectives. interesting end too.
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- Linda Marea
- 27-06-2020
Dark disturbing and brilliant
Read by some of the best narrators today, Liz Nugent’s devastating family saga is utterly compelling and totally relevant to today’s tabloid revelations of the breakdowns behind the doors of the rich famous and powerful. But far from being salacious it focuses instead on the deep traumas that money and fame can never mend. This is an absolute brilliant audible book from start to finish!!
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- Anonymous User
- 06-11-2022
Always looked forward to getting back to it
Twists and turns and dirty secrets of course. I found the book compelling, and really enjoyed the writing style.
This writer creates some extremely unlikable and deeply flawed characters. I find their books harrowing yet riveting. Have to take breaks between their books. Upon return i haven’t been disappointed.
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- Amanda D.
- 03-10-2023
stunning and heartbreaking
The book opens with a funeral. There are three brothers, and one of them is dead. The story is the life of the family told three times, in the voice of each brother. Only through each of their own perspectives do you see the "little cruelties" that they inflict on each other. I spent the story unsure who would end up in the coffin but *knowing* they each, in their way, are destined for ruin, deservedly so in most cases.
When I read my first @liznugentwriter book earlier this year, Strange Sally Diamond, I was shocked at how dark it turned after such an oddly funny opening. This book doesn't even pretend to be light-hearted, it's a gut punch from beginning to end, one of those stories that make you genuinely angry at people who don't exist, characters who are so richly textured that you feel that you know them and want to Google them to find out what happened to them after the story ends.
I feel like I'm actually in mourning now, heartbroken and emotionally gutted. Such an excellent book.
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