The Blue Sisters

Everyone faces their own problems in life. But they are united by one loss. Even though they're sisters, based on their appearance and demeanor, hardly anyone would think so. Avery has sorted out her priorities after a battle with addiction and is enjoying a successful legal career in London with her wife. Bonnie, a bitter, sensitive woman, takes her anger out in the boxing ring, where she has had many successes in the past. She now works as a security guard at a bar and tries not to think about how attracted she is to her trainer. And the vain model Lucky spends her time with friends at extravagant Parisian parties, completely missing how easily her life spirals out of control. There used to be four. It is exactly one year since the cheerful, sentimental and at the same time quietly suffering Nicky died. The remaining three sisters meet in their native New York to prevent the sale of the apartment they grew up in. But old wounds resurface and it turns out that although Nicky is no longer alive, her shadow is reflected in each of their lives... A new novel from the bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein. This portrait of raw family relationships in a time of tragedy follows in the best tradition of contemporary young adult novels. Published in co-edition with Slovart Publishing House. "Mellors[s] manages to aptly capture the fierceness, stickiness, and beauty of sisterhood. And at the same time the grief following a family tragedy." - The New York Times "Sophisticated and smoothly flowing prose holds the reader's interest through carefully spun plots. The author's gift for capturing sisterly dialogue is enviable: delightfully balances the biting arguments and affectionate exchanges that anyone with siblings can relate to." - Michigan Daily "This is a heavily addictive read - a feeling all too familiar to the Blue sisters. While the narrative may be full of trite platitudes about family in places, he is right about one thing: it's incredibly hard to quit something, when the drama is so intense and so much is at stake." - i Paper "A deeply sensitive book with unique characters, that are impossible not to love, explores dependencies, dynamics and injustices in women's lives, that are so close to each other - and especially their complex ways of grieving. The author has built an entire world out of one family's problems, showing a rich and universal palette of sisterhood." - Washington Square News