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

Good story terrible narrator

Better to read the book I think. The narrator was monotone and annoying to listen to.

The story was lovely. The relationships between the sisters and their mothers really resonated. It was tormented and sweet.

I didn’t care for the voice of the narrator. Although the book has beautiful prose and the narrators accents was the native tongue of the main characters it was choppy and distracting to the telling of the story.

Good story, terrible narration

I liked the story, but the narration was distractingly terrible. I switched to Kindle for some sections.

Loved the sisterhood and their differences

The narrator was robotic and difficult to listen, will never listen to her ever again.

Hard to follow - story takes too long to come together

Hard to listen to in story takes long to start forming I would skip on this book. Unfortunately.

beautiful prose

This writer has a really beautiful and descriptive style. There were many times her words made me pause just to appreciate the way she painted a picture. The story is sad, inspiring, and real. I really loved it. The one drawback was the audiobook narrator. It was unusually awful and distracting. It's better at 1.5 speed, FYI. I'm glad I got over that because I really did love the book.

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.

I can’t stop recommending this!!

I liked every bit of it. The narrator makes this as intense as it needs to be. The love, anger, frustration worry, and jealousy that colors all sister relationships is palpable. And the research! A knockout!

A Story of Family

I have siblings, have for many years, so I'm helplessly drawn to stories about brothers and sisters, and their parents. I enjoyed this one.