All the Bad Apples

<p><b>The stunning new novel about silenced female voices, family secrets and dangerous truths from the author of <i>The Accident Season</i>.</b><br><br><b>'Exquisite . . . This is a book to hold tightly to your chest' <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Lyrical . . . Compelling' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>'Beautiful, visceral . . . A primal scream' <i>Louise O'Neill</i></b><br><br><b>'Uncompromising, raw, devastating' <i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><br><b>'I am in absolute awe of it'<i> Melinda Salisbury</i></b><br><br>On Deena's seventeenth birthday, the day she finally comes out to her family, her wild and mysterious sister Mandy is seen leaping from a cliff. The family is heartbroken, but not surprised. The women of the Rys family have always been troubled - 'bad apples', their father calls them - and Mandy is the baddest of them all.<br><br>But then Deena starts to receive the letters. Letters from Mandy, claiming that their family's blighted history is not just bad luck or bad decisions, but a curse, handed down to the Rys women through the generations. <br><br>Mandy has gone in search of the curse's roots, and now Deena must begin a desperate cross-country hunt for her sister, guided only by the letters that mysteriously appear in each new place. What Deena finds will heal their family's rotten past - or rip it apart forever.</p> <p><b>The stunning new novel about silenced female voices, family secrets and dangerous truths from the author of <i>The Accident Season</i>.</b><br><br><b>'Exquisite . . . This is a book to hold tightly to your chest' <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Lyrical . . . Compelling' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>'Beautiful, visceral . . . A primal scream' <i>Louise O'Neill</i></b><br><br><b>'Uncompromising, raw, devastating' <i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><br><b>'I am in absolute awe of it'<i> Melinda Salisbury</i></b><br><br>On Deena's seventeenth birthday, the day she finally comes out to her family, her wild and mysterious sister Mandy is seen leaping from a cliff. The family is heartbroken, but not surprised. The women of the Rys family have always been troubled - 'bad apples', their father calls them - and Mandy is the baddest of them all.<br><br>But then Deena starts to receive the letters. Letters from Mandy, claiming that their family's blighted history is not just bad luck or bad decisions, but a curse, handed down to the Rys women through the generations. <br><br>Mandy has gone in search of the curse's roots, and now Deena must begin a desperate cross-country hunt for her sister, guided only by the letters that mysteriously appear in each new place. What Deena finds will heal their family's rotten past - or rip it apart forever.</p>