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  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9781405928823
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $22.99

Bad

A gripping, dark and outrageously funny thriller




The must-have beach read this summer. She stole her sister's life. Now someone's trying to steal it back . . .

Alvie Knightly worked hard for her money. Some might disagree - but it isn't easy to cheat your way to a fortune.

So when she wakes up one morning to discover that every penny has disappeared - and that her hot new boyfriend, Nino, has disappeared with it - she's furious.

Tracking Nino to Rome, Alvie's determined to do whatever it takes to get her money back... and take sweet revenge on Nino in the process.

But can she win back her perfect life before her crimes catch up with her?

  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9781405928823
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $22.99

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Using Sicily as a backdrop with its gorgeous architecture, villas and sexy men, Esposito pens an unforgettable summer debut headed by a no-holds-barred protagonist

Library Journal

Pure, unadulterated entertainment. There is nothing Chloé Esposito's Alvie won't do. Strap in for a fun, fast and fresh read

Ali Land, Sunday Times bestselling author of Good Me Bad Me

Deliciously over-the-top, with a protagonist you'll never forget

Bookpage

Gone Girl plus . . . Esposito has added a dollop of Bridget Jones to the mix

Telegraph

If you loved [Paula Hawkins'] Into the Water, try Mad

Red

Raunchy, fun

Guardian

The must-have beach read this summer

Telegraph

So begins this caper that has Alvina up to her neck in designer labels, hot sex and trouble . . . outrageous

Daily Mail

A summer read to make you hotter than the weather outside . . . you'd be mad not to find room for this in your case

Sun

I just read Mad in one go. I bloody LOVED it. Like Gone Girl, if Amy Schumer had written it. SUCH fun

Bryony Gordon, bestselling author of Mad Girl

She's an evil hot mess is what she is, and I kinda like it!

Sarah Knight, bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k

Allergic to chick lit? Meet Alvie Knightly . . . Insane as its title promises

Mail on Sunday

Trust us when we say that you won't ever have encountered a character quite like Alvie Knightly . . . A brilliantly bonkers read

Heat

Chloe [has] a fantastic natural vibrancy and humour in her work

Richard Skinner, Director of Fiction at the Faber Academy

Sizzlingly glamorous

Guardian

The white-hot debut

Glamour

Like The Devil Wears Prada - fast-paced, but funnier and more readable

Independent, 10 Best Debut Novels by Women Authors

Chloe Esposito introduces a compelling and uncensored antiheroine

US Weekly

A fast-paced tale of sex, lies and murder . . . Sex and the City dialled up several notches

Stylist

This fast-paced novel is a deadly game of cat and mouse . . . Multi-faceted, funny Alvie comes in hot, bringing with her a whole new level of hot, wicked, crazy awesome . . . Readers will fly through this book, and anxiously await the conclusion to the trilogy

Booklist, Starred Review

Packed with glamour, murder, sex and oodles of humour - an ideal beach read

The Herald

Revenge will be sweet - and in this case, extremely funny

New Magazine