{"product_id":"9781914585104","title":"Keep Her Sweet : The tense, shocking, wickedly funny new psychological thriller from the author of The Cry by Helen FitzGerald","description":"?When a middle-aged couple downsizes to the countryside for an easier life, their two daughters become isolated, argumentative and violent . A chilling, vicious and darkly funny psychological thriller from bestselling author Helen FitzGerald.   ?`Sharp, shocking and savagely funny. Helen Fitzgerald is a wonderfully original storyteller' Chris Whitaker?`A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is?always?a major event . magnificent' Mark Billingham?`I devoured Keep Her Sweet . shite parenting and a dysfunctional sister relationship goes to fatal extremes' Erin Kelly-----------------------------Desperate to enjoy their empty nest, Penny and Andeep downsize to the countryside, to forage, upcycle and fall in love again, only to be joined by their two twenty-something daughters, Asha and Camille.   Living on top of each other in a tiny house, with no way to make money, tensions simmer, and as Penny and Andeep focus increasingly on themselves, the girls become isolated, argumentative and violent.   When Asha injures Camille, a family therapist is called in, but she shrugs off the escalating violence between the sisters as a classic case of sibling rivalry . and the stress of the family move.?But this is not sibling rivalry. The sisters are in far too deep for that.   This is a murder, just waiting to happen.Chilling, vicious and darkly funny,?Keep Her Sweet?is not just a tense, sinister psychological thriller, but a startling look at sister relationships and they bonds they share . or shatter.   ?-------------------------`A wonderful book about a toxic family . funny, shocking and full of heart. FitzGerald at her coruscating best' Doug Johnstone?`Definitely one for those who love deadly dysfunctional families, whip-smart writing, and their stories dark, dark, deliciously dark' Amanda Jennings?`A novel rippling with power and intensity. A true page-turner' Michael Wood?`Wickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling . a book you'll want to talk about' Miranda Dickinson?`Helen Fitzgerald has an uncanny ability to balance savagery and hilarity . an absolute banger of a book' Matt Wesolowski?'A crazy but addictive, dark and funny, read' Louise Beech??`Dark humour sings from the pages' Russel McLean?`A fascinating and original tale of a family in rapid decline' Jen Med's Book Reviews`You will canter through this psychological thriller' Caf? Thinking?Praise for Helen FitzGerald*Worst Case Scenario was Guardian, Telegraph, Herald Scotland?AND?The Week?BOOK OF THE YEAR**Sunday Times?TOP 40 Crime Novels in the Last 5 Years**Longlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2020*?`The main character is one of the most extraordinary you'll meet between the pages of a book'?Ian Rankin`Sublime'?Guardian?`This darkly, funny, shocking and surprisingly emotional thriller is unlike anything you've ever read before'?Fabulous `A dark, comic masterpiece which manages to be both excruciatingly tense and laugh out loud funny at the same time'?Mark Edwards?`Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying, yet suffused with the humanity and humour you expect from a Helen Fitzgerald novel'?Erin Kelly`Tantalisingly powerful'?The Times`Ash Mountain?is the author at her masterly best . I loved it!'?Louise Candlish`The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist'?Heat`FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth'?Daily Telegraph`Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this - but that only makes you hungry for more'?The Sun\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205649137842,"sku":"9781914585104","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781914585104.jpg?v=1690718645","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781914585104","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}