Author: Mackie, Bella
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 12 September 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers (The Borough Press) in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 384 pages
166 x 242 x 39 | 592g
THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT
Featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Sunday Times Style, You Magazine…
'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON
Delicious' JOJO MOYES
'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT
?‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES
‘I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he’d done it with his clothes on.’
Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses, penchant for cutting moral corners, tick tick tick tick tick tick.
Unfortunately for him, he’s also dead. Suddenly poised to inherit his fortune, each member of the family falls under suspicion.
And that’s when everything comes crashing down…
'A blend of Miss Marple-style whodunnit and social comedy — a gleeful satirising of the awfulness of the 1 per cent in TV shows such as The White Lotus and Succession’SUNDAY TIMES, Pick of the Month
‘Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast – everyone here, apart from her rather sweet TikTok sleuth, is dreadful, but in a pleasurably awful way… A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family’ OBSERVER
‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED MAGAZINE
‘Ferociously entertaining’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘Gripping, sharp and funny, this window on the mega-wealthy is perfect for fans of Succession’ WOMAN & HOME
‘Another caustic satire from the million-copy bestseller of How to Kill Your Family’ i NEWS
'Still not over Succession? A dysfunctional family with four inheritance-obsessed children gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE
WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT BELLA MACKIE:
‘Just when you think you're a step ahead, she pulls something out of the bag’ ?????
‘Caustic sarcasm… delivered with elegance’ ?????
‘Mackie’s writing is sharp and funny’ ?????
‘Her sarcasm knows no bounds and I love it’ ?????
‘Sparky, slick, wildly compulsive’ ?????
‘Macabre, flippant, and darkly hilarious’ ?????
‘Her irreverent, withering put-downs and sharply observed comments’ ?????
What A Way To Go was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16.09.24