What A Way To Go

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.

'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON'Delicious' JOJO MOYES'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES'A blend of Miss Marple-style whodunnit and social comedy — a gleeful satirising of the awfulness of the 1 per cent in TV shows such as The White Lotus and Succession’SUNDAY TIMES, Book of the Year‘Undeniably funny’ GUARDIAN‘Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast… A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family’ OBSERVER‘Ridiculous fun – with awful characters… a surefire bestseller’ iNews‘A blend of Miss Marple-style whodunnit and social comedy — a gleeful satirising of the awfulness of the 1 per cent’ THE TIMES'An English Succession on steroids. Terrible people doing terrible things – all conveyed with a heady sense of dark humour, mordant wit, and a few “did she *really* go there?” moments' SARAH VAUGHAN'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‘Brilliant!’ SUN‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED MAGAZINE'A tart, engaging read' SUNDAY MAIL‘Ferociously entertaining’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘Gripping, sharp and funny' WOMAN & HOME‘Deliciously camp… will be enjoyed by fans of Saltburn and Knives Out’ NEW STATESMAN'Thoroughly enjoyable, like Succession rewritten by Agatha Christie’ MAIL ON SUNDAY‘A tense and twisted drama… a funny, dark, rugpull of a read that you won’t want to put down’ HEAT'The right side of spiky and the right kind of fun, with huge personality' ADELE PARKS‘Fabulous… I didn’t want it to end’ IRISH INDEPENDENT‘A witty and entertaining mash-up of class, wealth and crime’ IRISH TIMES‘Wickedly funny, and sometimes just plain wicked, this is a witty read on those wanting what they feel they're owed’ BELFAST TELEGRAPH'Fast-paced, funny and will have you guessing until the end' S MAGAZINE