'Liz Nugent is a force to be reckoned with ' Lisa Jewell 'Brilliantly observed family life and a plot that is part rollercoaster, part maze. Loved it!' Graham Norton 'MAGNIFICENT. Her best yet, and that's really saying something' Marian Keyes ______________ Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin. Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother's unequal love. As men, the competition continues - for status, money, fame, women . They each betray each other, over and over, until one of them is dead. But which brother killed him? ______________ 'Dark, beautiful, devastating - pure genius' Lucy Foley '[An] incredible achievement .

I love her so much . Genius' Sebastian Barry 'Liz Nugent has a gift for filling us with a terrible fascination for truly horrible people' Val McDermid ' What a terrific storyteller Liz Nugent is! Brilliantly structured, fluently told, rich in unsettling incident and pulsing with dark, tumultuous energy . her best book yet ' Irish Times 'A dark jewel of a novel - finely observed, swift and exciting' AJ Finn ' An uncanny ability to get under the skin of characters . nobody is a mere cliché in Nugent's clear, propulsive writing ' Sunday Times 'Creepy, compelling and totally addictive' Erin Kelly ' Dramatic and compelling . a whodunit and a Greek tragedy all in one . absolutely riveting ' Irish Independent ' A masterful interrogation of a family's undoing . and a ruthless examination of the pieces left behind ' Business Post.