How to Kill Your Family
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4.1 • 398 Ratings
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- £13.99
Publisher Description
**Order the paperback of Bella Mackie's latest hilarious novel, WHAT A WAY TO GO, now**
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 is the author of three Sunday Times bestsellers – her nonfiction Jog On, her debut novel How to Kill Your Family, and her latest novel What a Way to Go. She has written for the Guardian, Vogue and Vice. In 2023 she judged the Women’s Prize for Fiction and her work has twice been shortlisted for the British Book Awards.
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
Definitely worth reading
Accept for one member of the family they all really deserved what they got. The ending was slightly disappointing unless there’s going to be a sequel in which case it makes much more sense. So here’s hoping for one as I’d like to read more .
Great 1st Novel
A great 1st novel with a great plot and a well told story. Really enjoyable lead character.
Brilliant and beautiful reading
Beautifully read , funny and great storyline .