**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023** **WINNER Crime Novel of the Year Irish Book
Awards 2023** **SHORTLISTED for The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award**
**SHORTLISTED for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2024** 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 police detectives but also a sinister voice from a past she cannot remember.
As she begins to discover the horrors of her childhood Sally steps into the world for the
first time making new friends and big decisions and learning that people don't always mean
what they say. But who is the man observing Sally from the other side of the world? And why
does her neighbour seem to be obsessed with her? Sally's trust issues are about to be severely
challenged . . . ***** 'In Sally Diamond Nugent has given us an astounding creation with a
singular voice . . . an absorbing twisty compulsive psychological thriller with surprising
humour and pathos' Sunday Independent 'Strikingly well-observed and consistently surprising'
The Times 'Incredible' Sara Cox 'Strange indeed . . . and smart too! Shocking disturbing
and utterly original Strange Sally Diamond will grip you from first page to last' Paula
Hawkins 'Irresistibly compelling this dark story is shocking yet endearing. A brilliant read
that will suck you in' Crime Monthly 'Liz Nugent has outdone herself. Twisted and twisty
dark and gripping no one is going to forget Sally Diamond in a hurry!' Graham Norton 'It
creeped me out (in a good way) . . . Terrific' Ian Rankin 'Dark compelling and deeply
moving' Ruth Ware 'So so good! Sally gets under your skin and worms her way into your heart.
I didn't want it to end' Jane Fallon 'I'm lost in admiration for Liz and her writing . . .
vivid pacy taut but so very moving' Marian Keyes 'Jaw-droppingly clever . . . One of the
best books I've read in a long long time. I can't stop thinking about it' Lucy Foley 'An
outstanding achievement which transforms the dark psychological thriller map with both bravura
and delicacy. One for the ages' Maxim Jakubowski
