Bella Mackie spins tales entertainingly as she showed with her million-selling story, “How to Kill Your Family”. Now she’s back with “What a Way To Go.”
Anthony Wistern is a financier who has made oodles of money. He’s got everything, a gorgeous but scheming wife, a gaggle of unruly children, mansions and mistresses on several continents, a jet-setting lifestyle. Unfortunately he’s dead. At his birthday party he mysteriously falls on a spike and is impaled. From the afterlife he talks to us.
Bella Mackie
His adult kids, who’ve never worked a day in their lives, gather to hear his will read. They are dumbstruck to learn there’s no money. The infighting begins. The plot gathers pace. Soon Olivia, Anthony’s wife, is dead too. And she’s also talking to us from the afterlife. This is a book for fantasists.
“‘What a Way to Go’ is rotters through and through; there isn’t a single decent person in it, and that’s kind of the point,” Jenny Colgan wrote in The Guardian. “In true ‘Succession’ style, Anthony has four children: Jemina, the scheming eldest; Freddy, the uninterested son; Paris-based Lyra; and Clara, the cheekiest and youngest. . . The plot dances along, some twists highly guessable and some cleverly snuck in. It is an excellent tart addition to your reading buffet.”
“What a way to go”, Bella Mackie, The Borough Press 2024, ISBN-10: 0008365954, ISBN-13: 978-0008365950
We got our copy of “What a Way to Go” from Bookazine. Hong Kong’s leading bookstore chain, Bookazine has six locations in the territory’s upmarket shopping malls and office buildings including IFC, Prince’s Building and Festival Walk as well as shops in wealthy districts such as Lyndhurst Terrace and Discovery Bay. The company is run by chairlady Nisha Mirchandani and daughters Shonee and Arti.
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