How to Kill Your Family

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.

‘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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘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‘Hilarious… skilfully plotted’ Adele Parks The Sun