The Best Way to Bury Your Husband: Four new friends. Four dead bodies. One big problem . . .

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Four new friends. Four dead bodies. One big problem . . . Four new friends. Four dead bodies. One big problem . . . Sally never meant to cave her husband's head in with a skillet. Or at least she didn't until suddenly, she did. But Sally isn't the only woman in town being pushed to breaking point. When coincidence brings four strangers together, a surprising solidarity is formed. So can they find the best way to bury their husbands - and get away with it Darkly funny and with a big beating heart, The Best Way to Bury Your Husband combines four very different women, one unexpected friendship and several spades in this irresistible page-turner.

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Tense, funny, moving and strangely cosy -- Holly Bourne
Darkly comedic... Heartbreaking and hilarious -- Jesse Sutanto
Perfect for those who like feminism with their dead bodies -- Julie Cohen
Casales book goes beyond the statistics to tell four very human stories * The Washington Post *
A sharp, entertaining, and fast-paced story thats as much about revenge as it is about sisterhood and liberation * Booklist *

Author Bio

Alexia Casale is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, as well as a script consultant and specialist human rights editor. Her young adult novel, The Bone Dragon, was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. The Best Way to Bury Your Husband is her first adult novel, inspired by spiralling domestic violence rates in the pandemic and her own human rights work.