by Liz Nugent
Sincere gratitude for expert research advice from:
Mark Shriver Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Genetics at Pennsylvania State University; David MacHugh Ph.D., Associate Professor of Genomics at University College Dublin; and Kieran Gaffney, Charge Care Officer at the Central Mental Hospital, Dublin.
Thank you to Duchess Goldblatt and her loyal devotees, to Benjamin Dreyer, to early readers Shaileen Kelly Landsberg and Anne Heausler. I am also very grateful to Alison McKenna and Culture Ireland for bringing me to the Lincoln Centre Library for the Performing Arts, NYC, as part of Salon Eire in 2016 before I was published in the United States. That’s faith!
To my eight siblings, my in-laws, and all of their current and former partners, I value you as friends as much as family, and your support means everything. To my wonderful mother, who sacrificed so much to get us here.
To my husband, Richard McCullough, I adore you. x
About the Author
LIZ NUGENT has worked in Irish film, theater, and television for most of her adult life. She is an award-winning writer of radio and television drama and has written critically acclaimed short stories for both children and adults. Unraveling Oliver, her fiction debut, was named Crime Novel of the Year by the Irish Book Awards. She lives in Dublin.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Nugent, Liz, author.
Title: Unraveling Oliver : a novel / Liz Nugent.
Description: First Scout Press hardcover edition. | New York : Scout Press, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017000051 (print) | LCCN 2017008188 (ebook) | ISBN
9781501167751 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501173387 (softcover) | ISBN
9781501167768 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Marital violence—Fiction. | Wife abuse—Fiction. |
Psychological fiction. | Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION /
Psychological. | FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Family Life. | GSAFD:
Suspense fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6114.U365 U57 2017 (print) | LCC PR6114.U365 (ebook) |
DDC 823/.92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017000051
ISBN 978-1-5011-6775-1
ISBN 978-1-5011-6776-8 (ebook)
