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What A Way To Go

By Bella Mackie
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THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF How To Kill Your Family IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT 'Delicious' — JOJO MOYES 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' — NIGELLA LAWSON 'Wonderfully wicked' — RED 'Very funny… I inhaled it' — JOE LYCETT 'Taut, pacy, seamless…... Read More
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THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF How To Kill Your Family IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT

'Delicious' — JOJO MOYES

'Super-sharp, lethally witty' — NIGELLA LAWSON

'Wonderfully wicked' — RED

'Very funny… I inhaled it' — JOE LYCETT

'Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read' — MARIAN KEYES

'Thoroughly enjoyable, like Succession rewritten by Agatha Christie' — MAIL ON SUNDAY

'Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast… A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family' — OBSERVER

Meet the Wisterns. Rich. Powerful. Morally bankrupt.

Anthony is dead. His wife and four children each have a motive.

And there’s a true crime-obsessed outsider ready to expose the killer…

With a family like this, who needs enemies?

'Ferociously entertaining' — GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

'Gripping, sharp and funny, this window on the mega-wealthy is perfect for fans of Succession' — WOMAN & HOME

'Another caustic satire from the million-copy bestseller of How to Kill Your Family' — i NEWS

'Still not over Succession? A dysfunctional family with four inheritance-obsessed children gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist' — SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT BELLA MACKIE:

'Just when you think you're a step ahead, she pulls something out of the bag' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Caustic sarcasm… delivered with elegance' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Mackie’s writing is sharp and funny' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Her sarcasm knows no bounds and I love it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Sparky, slick, wildly compulsive' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Macabre, flippant, and darkly hilarious' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Her irreverent, withering put-downs and sharply observed comments' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

What A Way To Go was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16.09.24

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008365981

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The Borough Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 384

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Bella Mackie Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Humour Literary Fiction

About the Author

Bella Mackie, Sunday Times bestselling author of Jog On, has written for the Guardian, Vogue and Vice.

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