How to Kill Your Family
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Publisher Description
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN
‘Funny, sharp, dark and twisted’ JOJO MOYES
‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
They say you can’t choose your family. But you can kill them.
Meet Grace Bernard.
Daughter, sister, serial killer…
Grace has lost everything.
And she will stop at nothing to get revenge.
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‘Funny and furious and strangely uplifting. Grace is a bitter and beguiling anti-hero with a keen eye for social analysis – even in her most grisly deeds, you never stop rooting for her’ PANDORA SYKES
‘Deliciously addictive…brilliantly executed’ i PAPER
‘Addictive… Grace Bernard is one of the most intriguing and bewitching protagonists I've read in years’ EMMA GANNON
‘A funny, compulsive read about family dysfunction and the media’s obsession with murder’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE
‘You’ll be gripped… Grace’s emotional detachment throughout will give you chills’ Rated 5 stars by COSMOPOLITAN
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‘Hilarious and dark’ ELLE
‘Ironic twists and caustic commentary on everything from liberal guilt to the consumerist con that is “selfcare” sharpen this debut novel’ OBSERVER
‘Brilliantly tongue-in-cheek stuff from the Vogue columnist’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
‘Witty, waspish satire of a murderer with no regrets’ GRAZIA
‘Original, funny, unique and such a refreshing read’ PRIMA
‘A deliciously dark debut novel’ RED
‘One very entertaining read’ WOMAN’S WAY
How To Kill Your Family was number 1 in the Sunday Times paperback chart on 26/04/2022
About the author
Bella Mackie has written for the Guardian, Vogue and Vice. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Jog On. This is her first novel.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
“You can’t choose your family. But you can kill them.” That’s the lapel-grabbing premise of the rollicking debut novel by journalist Bella Mackie, best known for running-meets-mental health memoir Jog On. When orphaned anti-heroine Grace Bernard learns the identity of her secret biological father—a mega-rich high-street fashion mogul—she wreaks revenge by picking off his ghastly family one-by-one. There are distinct shades of Killing Eve’s chic assassin Villanelle as savvy twentysomething Grace hops around Europe, donning disguises and methodically going about her murderous business. Fast, fierce and blackly comic with a couple of killer twists, this twisted tale displays Mackie’s journalistic background with its caustic eye for observational detail. The witheringly witty Grace simmers with righteous rage, while the targets caught in her crosshairs are a rogue’s gallery of surgically enhanced snobs, sexual predators and seedy hypocrites who frankly deserve what she’s dishing out. A beguiling crime caper with a subversive sting in the tail.
Customer Reviews
Funny and different
Nice to read something a bit different! Witty and dark and funny from start to finish.