By Coco Mellors
Blue Sisters
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Blue Sisters is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2024 by Coco Mellors
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
Ballantine Books and logo are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Originally published in the United Kingdom by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins UK, London.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mellors, Coco, author.
Title: Blue sisters: a novel / Coco Mellors.
Description: First edition. | New York: Ballantine Books, 2024.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023040337 (print) | LCCN 2023040338 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593723760 (hardcover acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780593723777 (e-book)
Subjects: LCGFT: Domestic fiction. | Novels.
Classification: LCC PR6113.E473 B59 2024 (print) | LCC PR6113.E473 (ebook) | DDC 823/.92—dc23/eng/20230905
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023040337
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023040338
Ebook ISBN 9780593723777
Book design by Sara Bereta, adapted for ebook
Cover design: Jo Thomson © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2024
Cover images: Barbara Hoogeweegen/Bridgeman Images
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Contents
Dedication
Prologue
Chapter One: Lucky
Chapter Two: Bonnie
Chapter Three: Avery
Chapter Four: Lucky
Chapter Five: Bonnie
Chapter Six: Avery
Chapter Seven: Lucky
Chapter Eight: Bonnie
Chapter Nine: Avery
Chapter Ten: Lucky
Chapter Eleven: Bonnie
Chapter Twelve: Avery