How to Kill Your Family: Borough edition

By Bella Mackie

A NEW EDITION WITH EXTRA MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHOR

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Compulsive’ Sunday Times

‘I loved this book’ Richard Osman

‘Funny and furious and strangely uplifting’ Pandora Sykes

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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‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘I’ve struggled to recover my reading mojo since lockdown. This turned out to be the thing that sparked it back to life… Funny, sharp, dark and twisted, Grace is a character I found myself rooting for even as she committed the most vile misdeeds’ JOJO MOYES

‘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

‘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

Format: Paperback
Release Date: 06 Jun 2024
Pages: 384
ISBN: 978-0-00-868353-5
Detailed Edition: Borough edition
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 in 2023 and her work has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Her next novel is What A Way To Go.

”'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

”'I loved this book” - RICHARD OSMAN

”'Addictive… one of the most intriguing and bewitching protagonists I've read in years” - EMMA GANNON

”'A funny, compulsive read about family dysfuction 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

”'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

”'Original, funny, unique and such a refreshing read” - PRIMA

”'A deliciously dark debut novel” - RED

”'This smart revenge comedy is told through the eyes of the Villanelle-esque anti-hero Grace Bernard… Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker of a debut” - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

”'Deliciously addictive… brilliantly executed” - i PAPER

”'Witty, waspish satire of a murderer with no regrets” - GRAZIA

”'Darkly hilarious” - IRISH TIMES MAGAZINE

”'Deliciously dark and twisted” - You magazine, MAIL ON SUNDAY

”'Bella Mackie’s debut novel is by turns pitch-dark and laugh-out-loud funny, with an outrageous final twist” - DAILY MAIL