A darkly humorous debut novel that follows a cunning antihero as she
gets her revenge
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 28, 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.
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.
Compulsively readable, 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.
Outrageously funny, compulsive, and subversive, How to Kill Your
Family is a wickedly dark romp about class, family, love . . . and
murder.
