Bella Mackie

How to Kill Your Family

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Produktbeschreibung

Outrageously funny, compulsively readable, and subversive, How to Kill Your Family is a wickedly dark romp about class, family, love . . . and murder. Coming soon as an 8-episode series on Netflix, executive produced and starring Anya Taylor-Joy. Bella Mackie’s debut novel is driven by a captivating first-person narrator who talks of self-care and social media while calmly walking the reader through her increasingly baroque acts of murder. But then, Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn’t commit.... When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother’s pleas for help, she vows revenge and coldly sets out to get her retribution—by killing them all, one by one. This darkly humorous debut novel follows a cunning antihero as she gets her revenge. “Funny, sharp, dark, and twisted.” —Jojo Moyes When I think about what I actually did, I feel somewhat sad that nobody will ever know about the complex operation that I undertook. Getting away with it is highly preferable, of course, but perhaps when I’m long gone, someone will open an old safe and find this confession. The public would reel. After all, almost nobody else in the world can possibly understand how someone, by the tender age of twenty-eight, can have calmly killed six members of her family. And then happily got on with the rest of her life, never to regret a thing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Overlook Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 144mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781419764196
• ISBN-10: 1419764195
• Artikelnr.: 68679303

Autorenporträt

Bella Mackie is freelance journalist and columnist at Vogue UK. Previously, she was a commissioning editor at the Guardian and deputy editor at Vice News. She has also written for Vogue, the Daily Mail, Vice, the Guardian, Stylist, and GQ. She lives in London.

Rezensionen

'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

'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

'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
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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

'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

'Deliciously addictive... this is one very entertaining read' PRESS ASSOCIATION

'Hilariously clever... the author has redefined satire' THE CANDID BOOK CLUB