Bad Fruit

An astonishing, gripping new crime thriller debut novel from a hot literary fiction voice of 2023

'Unforgettable' RED - 'Memorable' OBSERVER - 'A family overflowing with secrets' LOUISE HARE - 'Impossible to put down' CHRIS WHITAKER - 'Searing' ELLE - 'A chilling literary thriller' GRAZIA

''Masterful in its evocation of the complexity of mother-daughter relationships, this is a darkly fascinating, tightly plotted narrative from a writer to watch '' Harper''s Bazaar I KNOW I''M A BAD PERSON. THAT THERE''S SOMETHING COILED AND ROTTEN IN ME. _ 17-year-old Lily is mama''s girl, mama''s doll. Every evening she pours Mama a glass of perfectly spoilt orange juice. She arranges her teddy bears on the bed, just so. She puts on the matching pink clothes that Mama likes her to wear. But Mama''s love flies so close to hate. And as her behaviour escalates, as she starts to unravel, so do the memories that Lily has kept locked away for so long. She only wanted to be good, to piece Mama back together. But what if instead . . . Lily tears her apart? Gripping and devastating, from a new voice that cuts as sharp as a knife, this is an unforgettable debut about a family gone bad.

Autorentext

Ella King is a Singaporean novelist living in London. She read Philosophy and Theology at Oxford University and is a corporate lawyer. A graduate of Faber Academy s novel-writing programme, she won the Blue Pencil Pitch Prize 2019 and came third in the Aurora Prize for Short Fiction 2019. She was inspired to write Bad Fruit by the stories her grandmother told her and her volunteer work with anti-human trafficking and domestic violence charities.

Klappentext

EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS . . .Unforgettable** RED **Memorable OBSERVER **A family overflowing with secrets** LOUISE HARE **Impossible to put down CHRIS WHITAKER Searing** ELLE **A chilling literary thriller** GRAZIA

Zusammenfassung
EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS . . .'Unforgettable' RED - 'Memorable' OBSERVER - 'A family overflowing with secrets' LOUISE HARE - 'Impossible to put down' CHRIS WHITAKER - 'Searing' ELLE - 'A chilling literary thriller' GRAZIA