Blue Sisters

A Novel

By: Coco Mellors

Narrated by: Kit Griffiths

Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this “deeply nuanced and compelling” (Vogue) novel, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein.

“A beautiful portrait of grief and the world-shaping bond sisters share.”—Real Simple

The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.

But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize that the greatest secrets they’ve been keeping might not have been from one another but from themselves.

Imbued with Coco Mellors’s signature combination of humor and heart, Blue Sisters is a story of what it takes to keep living after loss—and, ultimately, to fall in love with life again.

©2024 Coco Mellors (P)2024 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“In lush, cozy prose, Mellors guides us into the lives of Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky Blue, reuniting to clean out their childhood apartment in New York City on the first anniversary of their sister Nicky’s death. . . . She is . . . able to capture the ferality, stickiness, and beauty of both sisterhood and grief.”—The New York Times

“This intricate portrait of a family of sisters is deeply nuanced and compelling, a family drama with intimate psychological portraits within it.”—Vogue

“Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors paints a beautiful portrait of grief and the world-shaping bond sisters share.”—Real Simple

Couldn’t finish- Narration awful

I really wanted to listen to this book and was looking forward to it so much. I’m only on chapter 3, but I can’t keep listening because the narrator is reading with such a flat and distracting manner. It’s torturous and I can’t listen anymore.

The depth of each character.

A warm, intelligent, emotional roller coaster of 4 sisters and a dysfunctional family’s journey dealing with grief, while trying to navigate a life fulfilled.

Good story and characters development

I really liked how the characters were developed in the story and how it really focused on the individuals as well as their relationships with one another. Much like in real life there is those bonds that are very different than those we share with other people. Good read.

Love Coco Mellors, HATED the narration

I fell in love with Cleopatara and Frankenstein and was counting down the days until this release. Now, I've stopped listening to audiobooks in the past due to being turned off by the narrator and if it wasn't for loving Coco's first release, I would have stopped listening to this one pretty quickly. The narration is distracting, grating and irritating. The narrator, who did a LOVELY job with Cleopatara and Frankenstein, adopts a flat, monotone Jersey-esque accent with weird, choppy stilted pauses throughout her sentences. It's almost comically bad. It was hard to push through honestly because I found it so distracting. Really unfortunate because I know the narrator can do a lovely job and this book itself was beautifully written but whatever she was trying to do here was NOT working. Surprised it actually was published this way.

Beautiful family story…with ups and downs

I liked the narration because it’s different and seems appropriate to the story, so no issues for me. Loved the story addressing very human, flawed characters who directly love each other.

distracting narration accents

for some reason everyone in this narration has a queens/Staten island accent despite growing up basically on central park and attending UES private schools., it was so distracting. why would you chose a british narrator when 95% of the book is done in an american accent?

Beautiful Sisters!

Don’t be swayed by reviews of the narrator! I think her all around reading was wonderful.

HORRIBLE narration.

I couldn’t stand listening to the audio version. The narration was awful. Had to go buy the hard copy to finish the book, and even then it was poisoned because I can’t un-hear the audio voice while reading.

Grief. Trauma. Sisterhood.

Get your tissues out. This is a beautiful story of family and all of its messiness and joy. It is brilliantly written and read.

Depressing

The story is dark and depressing. This is a long story to read then the ending feeling is heavy