Published: 2020, Penguin Genre: Fiction Themes: competition between brothers, Irish family, price of success My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤❤ I usually put a few props on the tray that I use for book photographs, but what on earth do you use when you want to portray a family of self-serving, malicious miscreants as the characters in this book? Our Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent is a dark story of three brothers desperately competing for the love of their selfish mother. It begins at the funeral of one of them and throughout the book you are left to guess which one it is going to be. Each takes a turn at telling their version of their family story, and at the end of each section you are left thinking, 'yep, someone would certainly want to kill him!' The narrative is beautifully written, to a quality right up there with best contemporary Irish writers, and it is rightly an international best seller. I enjoyed it from the start as the three brother...