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😭🩵✨BLUE SISTERS IS AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! ✨🩵😭 Thank you to my publisher Ballantine, the @readwithjenna team, and every reader who has believed in this story, bought a copy, recommended it to a friend, and made these sisters part of their life—this is ALL because of you. And thank you, always, to Henry for looking after Indigo so I could travel around the country to give this book the support it needed to get here (the second picture is me tearfully calling from a hotel room in Austin to tell them - Indigo was definitely more interested in eating the phone, but I feel in time he’ll appreciate the moment!) Every night away from him is hard, but right now it feels worth it to say… Mummy is coming home a best-bloody-seller!!!! 🎊😭✨💫🩵🎉🙏🏼🦋

💙 Ecstatic to share the US cover for BLUE SISTERS, published this fall by @penguinrandomhouse!! 💙 For this cover, I chose four portraits by the brilliant @barbara_hoogeweegen to represent these four very different sisters: 🦋 Avery, the typical eldest daughter and strait-laced lawyer in London, who’s harboring a secret that could undo her seemingly perfect life forever. 🦋Bonnie, the soft-spoken pro boxer, who’s fled to LA and working as a dive bar bouncer following a devastating defeat. 🦋 Lucky, the rebellious youngest, whose hard-partying ways while modeling in Paris are threatening to catch up with her. 🦋 And Nicky, the family diplomat and beloved high school English teacher, whose unexpected death has sent the remaining sisters reeling. BLUE SISTERS is, first and foremost, a family novel. It’s about the ways sisters shape each other, how addiction manifests between generations, and how grief changes us. It’s also (because I’m me, and I can’t write the dark without the light) about glamour, sex, and the joy of living. I hope you love these sisters as much as I do 🫂

🩵 BLUE SISTERS UK COVER IS HERE!!! 🩵 I feel so incredibly lucky to have another painting by the one and only @buttonfruit, whose art is also on the covers of CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN, gracing my second book. Gill’s portraits of women capture everything I try to convey in my writing: beauty, depth, frankness and fearlessness. The first time I saw this portrait, I felt it was the one. Then I saw the title, ‘To the Lighthouse’, and I knew. Because that is exactly what the Blue sisters are to each other - four lighthouses casting their beams on the dark and choppy waters of the others’ lives, attempting to guide each other safely home. BLUE SISTERS is out in the UK May 23rd. I, frankly, cannot fucking wait!!

We are hugely excited to welcome Coco Mellors to St. Mary’s Marylebone to celebrate the paperback publication of the brilliant Blue Sisters. From the bestselling author of Cleopatra & Frankenstein, Blue Sisters is another enthralling examination of the intricacies of human nature and love, as three siblings from different corners of the world reunite in New York to mourn the loss of their fourth sister. Visit Waterstones.com/events for more information

After a year of touring and promotion it’s been so lovely to slow down this past month, go offline, snuggle with Indy and turn inwards creatively. But let it be known I did leave the house sometimes! Some highlights: ✨ A festive night in this Staud dress of NYC dreams. ✨ Hearing my friend @juhea_writes read from her phenomenal sophomore novel City of Night Birds. 🩰 🦢💛 ✨ Galleries, lunches, playground, walks—going anywhere, doing anything with Indy. ✨ Talking to Diana Markosian about her new photography book Father that is so beautiful and moving. ✨ A twelve-hour hang in Miami Book Fair with brilliant writers and people Porochista Khakpour and Honor Levy, where we made the iconic discovery that Steven King is in a cover band?! ✨ A cute monogram cashmere moment from @onequince ✨ The new book haltingly, imperfectly taking shape. I know it’s alive when I find myself ferociously tapping out scenes in my notes app in the back of Ubers- which is, I think, the only good reason to miss this view of Manhattan.

My first cover! It’s not Vogue, but I do believe that the in-store magazine for an independent chain of English language bookstores in Switzerland is…practically the same thing lol. Anyway, I am delighted to be featured thank you @orellfuessli_thebookshop 🥰 Also, these pictures were taken by my best friend @zoepotkin when I was six months pregnant with Indigo and had just moved back from LA (it looks like I have no eyebrows because living in a place with perpetual sunshine bleached them white, but I promise they’re there) 💛

Thank you to everyone who voted Blue Sisters into the final round of the Goodreads Choice Awards!!! Voting is open until December 1st—if you want to show the sissies some love it would mean so much to me 😭🩵✨

Thank you for having me @nationalbookfoundation! Highlight of the night was definitely finding my idol (and honoree of the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award) Barbara Kingsolver on the dance floor and getting to tell her that she was the first author Henry and I bonded over, and that reading and talking about her books has sustained and enriched our relationship…over the soothing croons of Azealia Banks no less 😂 And thank you to the @meta team and @life.is.goo for being the best, as always ✨

Tis the season to serve looks, give books…and get free tote bags! 🛍️🎄✨ If you order the US Blue Sisters in the next month and submit the receipt to @randomhouse (link in bio) they will send you a free tote of the sister of your choice! For obviously self promoting reasons I think books are the best gifts but they are also objectively ideal because a) you don’t need the person’s size and b) it instantly gives you something to talk about with your family that isn’t politics (🫠🤪) *This is for the US edition and first 50 orders only - but thank you, as always, to all the international readers 🇺🇸🩵

Our dearest darling, our miracle baby, who loves the world so much he joined it two months early, is one. How could we have known a year ago when I was rushed into surgery how much would change, forever, for the better. Those first long months in the NICU, the nurses hovering over you like angels, tearing ourselves away each evening to sleep, waking to pump in the dark while looking at pictures of you on my phone, all 4lbs 4oz of you already so beautiful, crossing the bridge back early each morning to witness your nature unfurling in that warm hospital room, your tenacity and sweetness, a nurse telling us that everything you needed to know about the dignity of the human spirit could be learned watching a premature baby fight to live, to grow. Then finally home, too cold to go outside, nesting in bed, marveling at your long eyelashes and tiny hands, wondering if I’d ever have time to wash my hair again, night feeds, your gentle snuffles as I read books on kindle, longing for sleep but also never wanting those tender hours to end. Spring brought your first smiles, your first cold, your first nanny, the godsend Elsa, our first book tour together, exhaustion and elation in equal measure, the wonderful weight of you growing heavier in our arms. Summer was music classes in the park, rubbing sunscreen into your delicious rolls, your impressive appetite for our painstakingly made purees, yes, but also flowers, the bottom of shoes, a tube of toothpaste left within reach. The delight of your giggly gurgles, your funny bunny sense of humour, the way you catch eyes with strangers, enchanted, and enchanting them in turn. In autumn you climbed on everything, found your feet beneath you, beamed with joy on the playground at every other child. Henry and I laugh that you’ve never had stranger danger, are too curious about everything and everyone to worry much where mummy and daddy are. I hope that never changes, your fearless love of this life, which has made me love it more too. How could I not, my one, my only, my Indigo Sky, when it brought me you 🩵

Inside Author Coco Mellors’ writing rituals and more from our cozy fall retreat 🍂

What a pleasure to be on this list thank you @goodreads and all the readers who put Blue Sisters here! ✨🩵🎉 Have been taking a little break from Instagram to focus on my new book (and attempt to mitigate total and complete election despair), but this was a lovely surprise and I wanted to share it. I have to say the line up in fiction this year is pretty unbelievable - I haven’t read them all but All Fours, Martyr!, Margo’s Got Money Troubles and Intermezzo were all incredible. If you do feel inclined to vote (I’d love it to be for Blue Sisters but also for anyone) there is a link in my bio and in my stories. It gives me hope to see all these examples of fearless and empathetic storytelling. We need it now more than ever. 🫂