What A Way To Go

THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT

Featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Sunday Times Style, You Magazine…

'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON

Delicious' JOJO MOYES

'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT

‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES

‘I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he’d done it with his clothes on.’

Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses, penchant for cutting moral corners, tick tick tick tick tick tick.

Unfortunately for him, he’s also dead. Suddenly poised to inherit his fortune, each member of the family falls under suspicion.

And that’s when everything comes crashing down…

‘Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast – everyone here, apart from her rather sweet TikTok sleuth, is dreadful, but in a pleasurably awful way… A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family’ OBSERVER

‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED MAGAZINE

‘Ferociously entertaining’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

‘Gripping, sharp and funny, this window on the mega-wealthy is perfect for fans of Succession’ WOMAN & HOME

‘Another caustic satire from the million-copy bestseller of How to Kill Your Family’ i NEWS

'Still not over Succession? A dysfunctional family with four inheritance-obsessed children gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT BELLA MACKIE:

‘Just when you think you're a step ahead, she pulls something out of the bag’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Caustic sarcasm… delivered with elegance’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Mackie’s writing is sharp and funny’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Her sarcasm knows no bounds and I love it’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Sparky, slick, wildly compulsive’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Macabre, flippant, and darkly hilarious’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Her irreverent, withering put-downs and sharply observed comments’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

What A Way To Go was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16.09.24

About the author

Bella Mackie’s debut novel How to Kill Your Family was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and spent 47 weeks in the top 10 in paperback. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling nonfiction Jog On, and has written for the Guardian, Vogue and Vice. In 2023 she judged the Women’s Prize for Fiction and her work has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards.