How to Kill Your Family

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**Order Bella Mackie's latest hilarious novel, WHAT A WAY TO GO, now** THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN

‘Funny, sharp, dark and twisted’ JOJO MOYES

‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

They say you can’t choose your family. But you can kill them.

Meet Grace Bernard.
Daughter, sister, serial killer...
Grace has lost everything.
And she will stop at nothing to get revenge.

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‘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

‘Deliciously addictive...brilliantly executed’ i PAPER

‘Addictive... Grace Bernard is one of the most intriguing and bewitching protagonists I've read in years’ EMMA GANNON

‘A funny, compulsive read about family dysfunction 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

‘Witty, waspish satire of a murderer with no regrets’ GRAZIA

‘Original, funny, unique and such a refreshing read’ PRIMA

‘A deliciously dark debut novel’ RED

‘One very entertaining read’ WOMAN’S WAY

How To Kill Your Family was number 1 in the Sunday Times paperback chart on 26/04/2022

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4.0
99 reviews
Catherine Foster
January 2, 2022
One of the worst books I have ever read. Interesting plot but so badly written it overpowers everything else. It's like the author watched a badly researched tv show about rich people then tried to explain it to a child. Repeatedly. To make matters worse, the same phrases are used over and over. You could make a drinking game based on use of the phrase "on the nose" and be wasted within a few chapters.
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Georgina B
October 4, 2022
I was disappointed with the book. I found the protagonist annoying. She is portrayed as a victim avenging the wrongs against her family and hates the rich but she has a typical mean girl attitude who has made good money from early on in adult life and I found it very irritating to hear her judge everyone else. This made it hard to get behind her vendetta. Too many things went her way by coincidence and the book ended when it started to get interesting. I had higher expectations that were not met.
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Abby A
March 27, 2025
Please don't buy this book If you like protagonists who are "heroic" and/or likeable. That trope has been done so much that the story wouldnt be interesting so I'm glad the author Bella didn't play it safe & that she made the main character a psychopath. And not just that, one who kills their own extended family without remorse because of some revenge fetish..I listened to the abridged audiobook version so I'm unsure if some parts were left out but the narrator was brilliant. Gave life to it. 👌
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About the author

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.

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