How to Kill Your Family

A hilarious and dark debut novel about a female antihero out for revenge.

Grace Bernard is an ambitious young woman in London. Grace is from an underprivileged background, with an absent biological father and a working-class immigrant mother who died from cancer when Grace was still little. So when Grace discovers the identity of her father, and learns of his and his family's cruel treatment of her dying mother, she vows revenge. Grace coldly sets out to kill them all, one by one.

The challenge is knocking off her loathsome family without arousing too much suspicion. So Grace exploits their vanity and shamelessness; a car accident here, a drowning there bring Grace closer to the ultimate payback, as well as the fabulous inheritance she knows she deserves.

Bella Mackie's debut novel.How to Kill Your Family, was a smash success in the UK, a compulsively readable bestseller with a captivating first-person narrator. Outrageously funny and subversive, How to Kill Your Family is a wickedly dark romp about class, family, love . . . and murder.