This Little Family

Inès Bayard author Adriana Hunter translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:19th Aug '21

Should be back in stock very soon

This Little Family cover

The most gripping, shocking, dark, thought-provoking feminist fiction for 2021

Wife. Mother. Daughter. Killer.

‘You can’t stop reading, even as you want to look away’ New York Times

Wife. Mother. Daughter. Killer.

‘You can’t stop reading, even as you want to look away’ New York Times

Life is going well for Marie. She and her husband, Laurent, live a comfortable life in a large apartment in the eleventh arrondissement in Paris. Laurent has a good job at a big law firm and Marie enjoys her work at a bank, where she feels appreciated by her clients and colleagues.

Comfortable and secure, and ready for family life, the couple begin to try for a baby. But not long afterwards Marie experiences a shocking encounter which threatens to derail their plans completely, and her world slowly starts to fall apart.

Less than two years later, the family’s apartment is cordoned off by police tape as forensic officers examine a horrific scene in the family apartment. Three bodies around a dining table. Marie, Laurent and their little toddler, Thomas, in his high chair. All three of them have been poisoned by Marie.

This Little Family is a dark and furiously compelling novel about women, power and control, from a bright young star in French literature.

ISBN: 9780008332921

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm

Weight: 200g

272 pages