Even with that I still quite enjoyed it, although I agree the film is in a completely different league. In fact, she is calm, unfazed by her uncle’s death throes and unmoved by her cousin’s gentle nature, set on a plan which is disrupted by a rather surprising development: her arrest for a murder she didn’t commit. one of the main themes of the book was about class, but it wasn’t really discussed in any profound or nuanced way, and it actually became quite trite after a while. My blog contains a lot of lifestyle content, with a lot of witty sarcasm, honesty and sass thrown in for good measure! Grace Bernard is in Limehouse Prison serving a sentence for a crime she didn’t commit but that doesn’t mean to say she hasn’t committed some!

To outsiders, its appeal remains rarefied, but dip into this shrewd, gossipy memoir and you’ll find an altogether different world, one of shameless wheeler-dealing, scurrilous cunning and blind luck. This niggle and a certain twist at the end put my nose out of joint, though kudos to Mackie for pulling off something so unexpected. 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. And a couple of other things: her catfishing a seventeen year old boy to do hacking so she can hack into a smart home system and kill someone is just so incredibly cruel and it didn't sit well with me at all.But as rings true throughout the novel as a whole, she is there for reasons we later discover are far more complicated than would be contained in a straightforward murder – arrest – imprisonment plot. When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother’s pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. She also thinks that influencers make up mental illnesses for relatability and that her half-sister can't be pansexual because she has only dated men. And if you don’t believe me then let me just give you a little teaser of how much in poor taste it is: her uncle, sex club, choking. Gekoski has been in the rare books trade for more than half a century, years during which time the business has changed only modestly.

It does make for satisfying reading, watching her get the better of people (mostly men) who underestimate her. Grace is clearly intelligent for example— she comes up with ingenious ways to kill her relatives without leaving any trail. Grace Bernard is in prison for a murder she did not commit, when she comes out of her fug and starts writing about that time she killed her family!This work by Karen Heenan-Davies, and/or BookTalk and Booker Talk blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4. As this is such a 'hot read' on multiple bestseller lists I felt kind of bad for my non popular view, only to see that the Goodreads rating is actually just 3. I think it is also very effective that there is no dialogue or interaction between Grace and Harry in those final chapters, the ending is told through Harry's voice, reiterating the idea that in society men get to win and women don't get a say in it. I’m get the impression the author was trying to be funny, in a darkly humourous way, and didn’t pull it off.

Grace aims to pick off her dad's side of the family one by one by committing Killing Eve-esque-style murders. The characterisation is extremely good and there’s a good mix of some to like, some to make your fists and teeth clench and some are so odiously unlikeable they deserve all they get. I relate to Grace more than I should probably admit, this is my favourite word for that very reason! How to Kill Your Family is the first-person narrative of Grace Bernard, a young woman who has waged a campaign of hatred against a millionaire and his family.I love Bella’s writing style (and podcasting and Instagram styles) and so was keen to see what her foray into non non-fiction would be like. Her raison d’être is uninspired and although there’s a shoulder-shrug of a twist, the ending was anticlimactic. There’s no clear sense of direction to this novel and I felt at times she was confused with how she wanted to portray Grace. In an interview with Marie Claire magazine Bella Mackie said " This book is all about men having power over women and the system being rigged to make men win. A different perspective exposes something new in Oxford’s tangle of streets and colleges; from afar, students on bikes and tourist groups and traffic disputes stop feeling like a nuisance, revealing instead a quiet, understated sort of loveliness.