Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors is a powerful and believable tale of addiction in all its guises

Fiction

'Blue Sisters' by Coco Mellors

Anne Marie Scanlon

Blue Sisters is Coco Mellors’s second book following her bestselling debut Cleopatra and Frankenstein. The Blue family originally comprised a distant mother and four sisters who grew up in a cramped two-bedroom Manhattan apartment dominated by their volatile alcoholic father.

“The sisters could tell his mood by the way he closed the front door… He was the only man in the house but he also was the house. They lived inside his moods.”