{"product_id":"keep-her-sweet-paperback","title":"Keep Her Sweet: The tense, shocking, wickedly funny new psychological thriller from the author of The Cry","description":" \u003cb\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'Sharp, shocking and savagely funny. Helen Fitzgerald is a wonderfully original storyteller' \u003cb\u003eChris Whitaker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is \u003ci\u003ealways\u003c\/i\u003e a major event ... magnificent' \u003cb\u003eMark Billingham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'I devoured \u003ci\u003eKeep Her Sweet ... \u003c\/i\u003eshite parenting and a dysfunctional sister relationship goes to fatal extremes' \u003cb\u003eErin Kelly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-----------------------------\u003cbr\u003eDesperate 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiving 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this is not sibling rivalry. The sisters are in far too deep for that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a murder, just waiting to happen...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChilling, vicious and darkly funny, \u003ci\u003eKeep Her Sweet\u003c\/i\u003e is not just a tense, sinister psychological thriller, but a startling look at sister relationships and they bonds they share ... or shatter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e-------------------------\u003cbr\u003e'A wonderful book about a toxic family ... funny, shocking and full of heart. FitzGerald at her coruscating best' \u003cb\u003eDoug Johnstone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'Definitely one for those who love deadly dysfunctional families, whip-smart writing, and their stories dark, dark, deliciously dark' \u003cb\u003eAmanda Jennings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'A novel rippling with power and intensity. A true page-turner' \u003cb\u003eMichael Wood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'Wickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling ... a book you'll want to talk about' \u003cb\u003eMiranda Dickinson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'Helen Fitzgerald has an uncanny ability to balance savagery and hilarity ... an absolute banger of a book' \u003cb\u003eMatt Wesolowski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'A crazy but addictive, dark and funny, read' \u003cb\u003eLouise Beech\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'Dark humour sings from the pages' \u003cb\u003eRussel McLean\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'A fascinating and original tale of a family in rapid decline' \u003cb\u003eJen Med's Book Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'You will canter through this psychological thriller' \u003cb\u003eCafe Thinking\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Helen FitzGerald\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Worst Case Scenario was Guardian, Telegraph, Herald Scotland AND The Week BOOK OF THE YEAR*\u003cbr\u003e*\u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eTOP 40 Crime Novels in the Last 5 Years*\u003cbr\u003e*Longlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2020*\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'The main character is one of the most extraordinary you'll meet between the pages of a book' \u003cb\u003eIan Rankin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Sublime' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'This darkly, funny, shocking and surprisingly emotional thriller is unlike anything you've ever read before' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFabulous \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A dark, comic masterpiece which manages to be both excruciatingly tense and laugh out loud funny at the same time' \u003cb\u003eMark Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying, yet suffused with the humanity and humour you expect from a Helen Fitzgerald novel' \u003cb\u003eErin Kelly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Tantalisingly powerful' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eAsh Mountain \u003c\/i\u003eis the author at her masterly best ... 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