An Interview with Liz Nugent

Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2024, Liz Nugent, joins Harrogate International Festivals and host Joe Haddow, to talk about her book, Strange Sally Diamond. 

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.

A little more about the author…

Liz Nugent worked as a stage manager in theatres in Ireland and toured internationally before writing extensively for radio and television drama. Unravelling Oliver was published in 2014, hit the number 1 spot for several weeks and won Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.