EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS .'A beautiful, bewitching, unsettling and unputdownable dream of a book .I genuinely loved this, it will stay with me for a long time' LISA JEWELL'A blistering thriller' NEW YORK TIMES'Impossible to put down' CHRIS WHITAKER ____________________________________________________________ Seventeen-year-old Lily has a loving, normal family. So why does it suddenly feel like secrets are stirring? Like Mama is about to crack? As a storm of memories builds over one stifling summer, Lily must recast everything. What if her house isn'e(tm)t a home 'e" but a prison? What if her mother isn'e(tm)t a protector 'e" but a monster . Bold, beautifully told, and bound to keep you turning this pages, this is an unforgettable story about a family gone bad . _________________________________________________________________ Readers love getting a taste of BAD FRUIT: 'e~Best book I have read in a long long time. Intelligently written, really well paced.

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