Description
| Product ID: | 9780008476557 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Bad Fruit |
| Authors: | Author: Ella King |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense fiction, Ethnic studies, Thriller / suspense, Black & Asian studies, South & South East England, Singapore, 21st century |
| Description: | EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS . . . 'A beautiful, bewitching, unsettling and unputdownable dream of a book' LISA JEWELL EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS . . .‘A beautiful, bewitching, unsettling and unputdownable dream of a book’ LISA JEWELL____________________________________________________________LILY IS A GOOD DAUGHTEREvery evening she pours Mama a glass of perfectly spoilt orange juice. She arranges the teddy bears on Mama’s quilt, she puts on her matching pink clothes. Anything to help put out the fire of Mama’s rage.MAMA IS A GOOD LIARBut Mama is becoming unpredictable, dangerous. And 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 help piece Mama back together. But as home truths creep out of the shadows, Lily must recast everything: what if her house isn’t a home – but a prison? What if Mama 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‘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 |
| Imprint Name: | HarperCollins Publishers Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-18 |
