Claws Out! 9780008545581 Hardback

‘A great romp and an acute satire’ NIGELLA LAWSON’Such wicked fun. A darkly delicious mystery and sharply observed satire in one wildly entertaining package. Bella Mackie has outdone herself’ LUCY FOLEY’Bella Mackie’s books are salacious, gripping and very funny’ JOE LYCETTMeet Diana Leyland. Widowed three times, but let’s not blame the woman nowDianas on the hunt and has theperfectnew target.Finally, the type of wealth shes always dreamed of. A five-storey house in Hampstead, unfettered access to Londons liberal elite and a bloated bank account.If she can ensnare David Farrand, then she really will have clawed her way to the top.The only snag? Davids daughter, Cat.Diana might have got her claws into David, but Cat is sharpening her own. Entitled, suspicious and used to getting her own way, shes been digging into Dianas past.And it turns out Dianas last three marriages have one thing in common: the silly old fools are all six feet under.To lose one husband is unlucky. To lose two is careless. But three? Three must be murder.’Ingeniously plotted deliciously spiky’SUNDAY TIMES’Bella Mackies books are a sharp magnificence; witty, biting and delicious’ KATHERINE RUNDELL’A gleefully black-hearted satire of well-heeled North London life’MAIL ON SUNDAY’Incisive social satire and expert pacing will keep you laughing’GUARDIAN