Big Swiss meets All Fours in this irresistible novel about the intoxication of blowing up your life
Perdita Jungfrau thought she was going to be married to her husband forever, so falling in love with Nando, her ‘anarcho-Marxist’ handyman, is a crisis.
Life seems to put every possible obstacle in their way: she’s pregnant, he has a girlfriend, he’s fifteen years younger, she’s terrified of messing up her children and equally drawn towards this magnetic man who entrusts her with his deepest secret.
Now it's three years later and Nando has been murdered.
As her bewildered husband tries to make sense of the wildly unpredictable person his wife has become, Perdita has other things on her mind. For starters, who is the mysterious woman sitting outside her house in a parked car all day? How can she stop her adored baby brother from being pulled under by his opioid addiction? Can someone with a childhood like hers ever be the mother her children deserve?
And most of all, what should she do with the searing memories of the affair that turned her life upside down?
Genre: Mystery
Perdita Jungfrau thought she was going to be married to her husband forever, so falling in love with Nando, her ‘anarcho-Marxist’ handyman, is a crisis.
Life seems to put every possible obstacle in their way: she’s pregnant, he has a girlfriend, he’s fifteen years younger, she’s terrified of messing up her children and equally drawn towards this magnetic man who entrusts her with his deepest secret.
Now it's three years later and Nando has been murdered.
As her bewildered husband tries to make sense of the wildly unpredictable person his wife has become, Perdita has other things on her mind. For starters, who is the mysterious woman sitting outside her house in a parked car all day? How can she stop her adored baby brother from being pulled under by his opioid addiction? Can someone with a childhood like hers ever be the mother her children deserve?
And most of all, what should she do with the searing memories of the affair that turned her life upside down?
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"In the enthralling A Little Bit Bad, a feisty true-crime obsessive's erotic awakening in the canyons of California embroils her in her very own murder mystery. Pretty much the platonic-ideal beach read." - Ada Calhoun
"So charismatic and confiding; I felt as if I'd found my new (and very bad) best friend." - Eleanor Catton
"A Little Bit Bad is wholly original and compulsively readable. It's fresh, dark, subversive and wildly compelling. I can't stop thinking about it. Neyenesch turns the suspense genre on its head in the best way; I couldn't get enough." - Sophie Stava
"So charismatic and confiding; I felt as if I'd found my new (and very bad) best friend." - Eleanor Catton
"A Little Bit Bad is wholly original and compulsively readable. It's fresh, dark, subversive and wildly compelling. I can't stop thinking about it. Neyenesch turns the suspense genre on its head in the best way; I couldn't get enough." - Sophie Stava
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