Wife. Mother. Daughter. Killer. ‘You can’t stop reading, even as you want to look away’ New York Times Life is going well for Marie. She and her husband, Laurent, live a comfortable life in a large apartment in the eleventh arrondissement in Paris. Laurent has a good job at a big law firm and Marie enjoys her work at a bank, where she feels appreciated by her clients and colleagues.Comfortable and secure, and ready for family life, the couple begin to try for a baby. But not long afterwards Marie experiences a shocking encounter which threatens to derail their plans completely, and her world slowly starts to fall apart.Less than two years later, the family’s apartment is cordoned off by police tape as forensic officers examine a horrific scene in the family apartment. Three bodies around a dining table. Marie, Laurent and their little toddler, Thomas, in his high chair. All three of them have been poisoned by Marie.This Little Family is a dark and furiously compelling novel about women, power and control, from a bright young star in French literature.Inès Bayard's This Little Family is a riveting exploration of marriage and crime set against the backdrop of a bustling city. The literary fiction delves into the complexities of divorce and the drastic measures one woman takes to regain control.For fans of Colleen Hoover (One More Step), Leïla Slimani (Watch Us Dance), Ashley Audrain (The Push), Jeanine Cummins (The Crooked Branch), and Agustina Bazterrica (Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird).
