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All the Little Houses
  • Published: 17 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9781464245794
  • Imprint: Sourcebooks Landmark
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $55.00

All the Little Houses

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20 Jan 2026
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17 Feb 2026
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Adults can behave badly, too.

"May Cobb's most explosive book yet. And trust me, that's saying a lot." — Jeneva Rose
"Nobody does explosive and twisted like May Cobb does it." —Lisa Jewell

Adults can behave badly too...

It's the mid-1980s in the tiny town of Longview, Texas. Nellie Anderson, the beautiful daughter of the Anderson family dynasty, has burst onto the scene. She always gets what she wants. What she can't get for herself… well, that's what her mother is for. Because Charleigh Andersen, blond, beautiful, and ruthlessly cunning, remembers all too well having to claw her way to the top. When she was coming of age on the poor side of East Texas, she was a loser, an outcast, humiliated, and shunned by the in-crowd, whose approval she'd so desperately thirsted for. When a prairie-kissed family moves to town, all trad wife, woodworking dad, wholesome daughter vibes, Charleigh's entire self-made social empire threatens to crumble. Who will be left standing when the dust settles?

From the author of The Hunting Wives comes a deliciously wicked new thriller about mean girls, mean moms, and the delicious secrets inside all the little houses.
  • Published: 17 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9781464245794
  • Imprint: Sourcebooks Landmark
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $55.00
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About the author

May Cobb

MAY COBB is the award-winning author of The Hollywood Assistant, A Likeable Woman, My Summer Darlings, and The Hunting Wives, which is being adapted into an 8-episode series for STARZ. She earned her MA in literature from San Francisco State University and her essays and interviews have appeared in The Washington Post, Texas Highways, Good Housekeeping, and more. A Texas native, she lives in Austin with her family.

MC

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Praise for All the Little Houses

Nobody does explosive and twisted like May Cobb does it. She's in a league of her own.

Lisa Jewell, #1 NYTimes Bestselling Author of Don’t Let Him In

A spicy cocktail of mean girls, bad boys, and secrets bigger than the prairie sky. It goes down easy but packs a punch.

Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of The House Across the Lake

Get ready for next year's obsession: All The Little Houses is a dynamic, multilayered powerhouse of a book from an author who writes the inner lives of complicated women with uncanny depth. May Cobb perfectly captures the intensity and precariousness of female relationships, rivalry, jealousy, and obsession, set against the sultry backdrop of an 1980s Texas summer. Timely, twisty, and utterly explosive.

Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, USA Today bestselling author of Till Death Do Us Part and The Girls Are All So Nice Here

Crisp and delicious and devious as a strong cocktail, vivid and atmospheric and steamy as a hot summer day. Reading May Cobb is like happy hour with your most fun frenemy dishing out the juiciest gossip you’ve ever heard in your life, and All the Little Houses is her best novel yet.

Rachel Harrison, USA Today Bestselling author of Play Nice and So Thirsty

Addictive and wildly satisfying.

Karin Slaughter, New York Times and #1 International bestselling author
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