Blue Sisters

The Blue sisters were four, and now they are three. A year after Nicky — the gentle, beloved heart of the family — died at twenty-seven, her surviving sisters have scattered as far from home and from each other as they can get. Avery, once an addict and now a composed lawyer in London, is quietly unraveling behind her marriage; Bonnie, a former professional boxer, has fled to Los Angeles to work as a bar bouncer after a devastating loss in the ring; and Lucky, the youngest, is burning through a reckless model's life of parties, alcohol, and drugs in Paris.

When their parents announce plans to sell the New York apartment where the sisters grew up and where Nicky died, the three are drawn reluctantly back together. Cleaning out the home means reopening every wound: their grief, their rivalries, their addictions, and the ways they've each failed one another since Nicky's death. Over a charged reunion, they begin the painful work of grieving honestly and deciding whether they can still be a family.

Coco Mellors's second novel is a raw, tender, sharply observed portrait of four very different women, the sister who binds them, and the long shadow that a single loss can cast over a family.