Liz Nugent talks about Our Little Cruelties By Each of Liz Nugent’s three previous books has reached the number one bestsellers list in Ireland, and her latest title, Our Little Cruelties, looks set to follow. The story opens with three brothers at a funeral – one of them is in the coffin. But which brother put him there? And why? Liz reads from the opening chapter, then tells us more about her writing… Our Little Cruelties is published in paperback original by Penguin on January 21, £8.99, and available from Amazon. When did you first start writing fiction? I’m not sure about writing fiction, but I was a compulsive liar as a child. I made up wild stories all the time. When my parents divorced, I told my little brother that Mum had locked Dad in the potting shed in our garden. I carried that on for quite a while and used to let him “catch” me smuggling food out to the shed (I was the only one with a key).