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A Good Person: The compulsive book of the summer with a heroine you won't forget, 'a zillennial Gone Girl' (NYT Book Review)
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'A zillenial Gone Girl . . . Acerbic, darkly feminine and very funny' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'Hilarious and addictive' DAILY MAIL
'A must-read . . . With tart prose that tastes like sour candy, Kirsten King's debut is a home run' MARIE CLAIRE
Lillian is having a great time with Henry: he's charming, well-educated, and exactly the kind of guy she'd like to end up with. That is, until she stays the night at his flat and they end up in a huge argument. Furious, Lillian seeks revenge on Henry by performing a drunken YouTube hex on him.
But then Henry actually ends up dead.
Desperate to control the narrative, clear her name, and assume her rightful place as Henry's mourning girlfriend, Lillian's pursuit of the truth will throw her into a dangerous tailspin, which just may just upend her life for good.
'Sharp, hilarious, and painfully relatable' MONIKA KIM, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART
'I adored this deliciously acidic, addictive novel' EMMA VAN STRAATEN, prize-winning author of THIS IMMACULATE BODY
'Wild, wicked, and laugh out loud funny. Lillian is a bad person, but Kirsten King is a great writer' SARAH HARMAN, prize-winning author of ALL THE OTHER MOTHERS HATE ME
'Electrifying. A Good Person is a compulsively readable and sharply insightful . . . I loved it' KIMBERLY MCCREIGHT, New York Times bestselling author of LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER
'Wickedly funny . . . [as] if Ottessa Moshfegh dabbled in murder' SEATTLE TIMES
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Sharp, hilarious, and painfully relatable, Kirsten King's debut will keep you laughing as you turn each page. Lillian is the chaotic friend, the ex you still stalk, and the woman you claim to despise but still can't stop following
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I adored this deliciously acidic, addictive novel. Lillian is my favourite kind of heroine, interior, self-interested and dripping with venom. Her grotesque worldview is, in turn, funny, tragic, minutely observed and worryingly relatable. Poisonous, giddy, excruciating, delightful - an exceptional debut
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I stayed up way too late reading Kirsten King's A Good Person. I could not put it down, had to know how it ended. Wow. Maybe Lillian is not your textbook definition of a good person, but I fell for her hard
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I raced, cringing, through Kirsten King's taut psychological thriller, compelled and repelled in equal measure by Lillian's assured narration. After spending so much time in Lillian's head, the reader starts to lose sight of what, exactly, makes 'a good person.' And that's high praise
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You'll laugh, you'll gasp, you'll find it painfully relatable. A Good Person is delightfully dark, funny, and thought-provoking. I couldn't put it down
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