Here is Strange Sally Diamond’s Ending Explained. Strange Sally Diamond is one of the best-selling books by Liz Nugent. Liz Nugent is one of those authors whose books and novels usually get positive reviews from their readers.
Strange Sally Diamond book is about a character called, as you may have guessed, Sally Diamond, and she is a 40-year-old woman who has lived with her mother and father her entire life.
Her mother died when she was in her early 20s, and now she’s living with her father. Her father always joked with her that when he died, she was just to leave him out with bins because that’s what they always did with rubbish.
Sally is someone who takes things very literally. She doesn’t have a lot of social interactions with people, so she is not very used to social cues, and she just sees the world in a slightly different way than other people.
So when her father actually does die during the night and in his 80s, she takes his word quite literally and she leaves his body out with the bins. This leads to a kind of investigation.
What comes after the investigation is very disturbing for her, and during all of this, some family friends come to help Sally. She finds letters from her father that detail secrets about Sally and Sally’s childhood that she had never known before.
So she is only while she’s coping with all of this extra attention, she suddenly figures out all these hidden secrets about her childhood that a lot of other people knew, but she never knew about herself.
Strange Sally Diamond Ending Explained
Sally comes to know that her real mother is not the one who she lived with all these years, but she is Dennis Norton, who was kidnapped when she was 11 years old and had been kept in chains for almost 16 years by her kidnapper Conor Geary.
At the end of the book, we get to know that a burglar eventually finds out about Denise and her daughter Sally. Denise committed suicide while under psychiatric supervision.
The doctor and the psychiatrist who looked after Sally and Dennis in a mental hospital were the first individuals she identified as Mum and Dad.
At first, it would seem like an act of kindness that directed her, but as time goes on, you might see that, at least psychologically, the psychiatrist’s father was just as damaging as Conor Geary.
As half of the book finishes, you find out that Conor Geary had a son with Dennis before escaping to New Zealand. Sally’s and her brother’s accounts of their lives in Rotorua are quite similar.
Even though they both live in a stunning and fascinating part of the world, it seems that they have spent life with blinkers on, only seeing what Dad and Geary wanted them to see and keeping themselves apart from everyone else.
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Strange Sally Diamond Book Review
This is a very character-focused book, like a lot of Liz Nugent’s books. In terms of plot, it’s not super action-packed. It is not twisty and turns. It’s very simple, and it’s a very character-focused book.
The majority of the book follows Sally over several years to know herself better. She kind of gets to know what went on in their childhood better, and she kind of starts coming out of herself more, but then we also see some regression as well.
Sometimes when things happen, and she takes a couple of steps back as well, and then through this as well, we’re also getting kind of a different perspective at times which is kind of like a flashback.
That’s when the story gets particularly dark and quite twisty, and that’s when we start seeing and kind of figuring out where the story is going and where some of the reveals are going to happen.
This book is wonderfully written, and the characters have a lot of depth. The story does have its funny moments, but when the story gets deeper under the surface of what had happened and what’s happening now, and who these characters are, it’s incredible.
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