Bad Fruit

**Ella King's new novel Dear Darling is coming April 2026. Available to pre-order now**EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS A beautiful, bewitching, unsettling and unputdownable dream of a book I genuinely loved this, it will stay with me for a long time LISA JEWELL A blistering thriller NEW YORK TIMES Impossible to put down CHRIS WHITAKER____________________________________________________________Seventeen-year-old Lily has a loving, normal family. So why does it suddenly feel like secrets are stirring? Like Mama is about to crack?As a storm of memories builds over one humid summer, Lily must recast everything. What if her house isn t a home but a prison? What if her mother isn t a protector but a monster . . .From hot new talent, Ella King, comes an unforgettable story about a family gone bad . . ._________________________________________________________________ A powerful, hard-hitting and exquisitely written novel CLARE MACKINTOSH Paring-knife sharp . . . Mama is a terrifying, masterful creation ABIGAIL DEAN This is a cracker HARRIET TYCE Disturbing, poignant and memorable all at once an exploration of a very dark relationship between a daughter and her mother OBSERVER A riveting novel exploring how family ties can both make us and break us RED Beautiful, disturbing, impossible to put down. Bad Fruit heralds a seriously impressive new talent in Ella King CHRIS WHITAKER Masterful in its evocation of the complexity of mother-daughter relationships . . . a writer to watch HARPER S BAZAAR