WINNER
- IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year' Truly excellent beautifully written strongly recommended' Sophie Hannah' Compelling clever & dark unlike any other psychological thriller you will have read before you'll gobble it up in one go' Heat Magazine' Incredibly brilliant' Marian Keyes' Gone Girl meets The Spinning Heart a great cracking read I couldn't put it down' Ryan Tubridy RTE' The compulsion to continue reading never wanes & most impressively the ending doesn't buckle under the weight of expectation a persistently satisfying read' Sunday Times 'A page-turning one-sitting read from a brand new master of psychological suspense' Sunday Independent' An ambitiously structured & compelling whydunnit' Daily Mail ' Formidable' Irish Times' Reminiscent of The Book of Evidence' RTE Guide' We read this in one sitting satisfyingly unnerving' Woman's Way' All I know is I stayed awake until 3am to finish it which I haven't done with a new novel for longer than I can remember' Irish Independent' The best opening line you'll read all year & you'll keep reading' Sinead Crowley RTE Arts Correspondent' Her writing is stylish the characters are vivid & the line of the story is all too real & plausible Can't recommend it highly enough' Rick O' Shea 2FM'A superb & compelling terrifying book' Sinead Desmond TV3' Just read a book in one sitting Last time I managed that was about twenty years ago The book was Liz Nugent's Unravelling Oliver' Declan Burke Crime Always Paysie'A kind of Irish Mr Ripley Gripping thought-provoking' Darragh Mc Manus arts journalist'I read this book over a 24 hour period I seriously could not put it down' Writingie' Magnificent compulsively readable stunning shock & superb' Frank Mc Guinness'I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her' Liz Nugent's gripping novel of psychological suspense Unravelling Oliver is a complex & elegant study of the making of a sociopath in the tradition of Barbara Vine & Patricia Highsmith Oliver Ryan is a handsome & charismatic success story He lives in the suburbs with his wife Alice who illustrates his award-winning children's books & gives him her unstinting devotion Their life together is one of enviable privilege & ease
- enviable until one evening after supper Oliver attacks Alice & beats her into a coma In the aftermath as everyone tries to make sense of his astonishing act of savagery Oliver tells his story So do those whose paths he has crossed over five decades What unfolds is a story of shame envy breath-taking deception & masterful manipulation Only Oliver knows the lengths to which he has had to go to get the life to which he felt entitled But even he is in for a shock when the past catches up with him Liz Nugent has worked in Irish film theatre & television for most of her adult life She is an award-winning writer of radio & television drama & has written short stories for children & adults Unravelling Oliver is her first novel