How to Kill Your Family: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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While you’re trying to process Grace’s most recent kill, Mackie’s already moved on to ranting about Pret and lip fillers. That’s important, as it would be hard to enjoy the book if Grace wasn’t a fun character to spend time with. It made me think that it’s a good job that I haven’t been given a reason to wreak bloody revenge on anyone.

It’s about family, it’s about class and the patriarchy – structures and systems that Grace is subverting. She wants revenge on a bunch of random people she never met before just because her father didn’t acknowledge her and was never in her life to begin with, and he dared to be rich on top of it? I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail for a murder I did not commit. This sounds like something I’d really enjoy, sometimes a darker book where the characters are complex and twisted is exactly what I’m in the mood for. Yet, the endless tangents could have easily been summed up in one sentence rather than fifty-odd pages that Mackie takes to give you her opinion on something socially or culturally relevant.Grace is an intriguing character who at times, the reader can only admire for her gumption, drive and unapologetic cruelty. Grace one by one kills these family members but, before she can complete the final of her schemes and murder her father, she finds herself in prison, and for a murder she did not even commit.

She is scathing about wealthy people with their expensive tastes in clothing, wine, and houses yet after her mother’s death she was raised by a high-income couple who taught her to enjoy the finer things in life.

When Grace discovers her bio dad, a millionaire, rejected her and her dying mother, she decides to enact her revenge by killing the entire family.