This was my first book by Coco Mellors and the first 5-star read of 2025. The story follows the narrative of three sisters Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky who get together a year after their fourth sister, Nicky’s death.
Avery binds herself to the “eldest daughter” syndrome and bears the burden of taking care of her sisters and her family. A former heroin addict, now a lawyer is now settled in London with her wife. Bonnie, an ex-boxer flees from a defeat and ends up working as a bouncer. Lucky, the youngest starts modeling early and travels around the world to explore all kinds of drugs to survive the aching pain left by the sudden death of Nicky. Closer to the first death anniversary, the sale of the apartment where all of them grew up, brings all the sisters together. They finally face the hard denial from the grief of losing Nicky over a year, a pain that each of them bore alone.
“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend?”
Blue sisters, Coco mellors
“It was easy to love someone in the beginnings and endings; it was all the time in between that was so hard.”
Blue sisters, coco mellors
I have seldom read a book where the author has so realistically painted the sibling bond. The jealousy, transparency, the fight to be visible, the sibling rivalry – all of them woven in a story that transpires across timezones yet brings them together when they feel the tuck in their soul. The story made my eyes moist with tears. If you have loved and watched “This is Us” series then this book is for you!
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