The Snakes

By Sadie Jones

Book Overview

"The Snakes is many things--a parable and an ancient drama where a father's greed devours his children, a police procedural, an avid take on tabloid venality, and a bitter comedy, superbly observed. Sadie Jones writes with pitiless aplomb and corrosive intelligence."--Louise Erdrich

A chilling page-turner and impossible to put down, THE SNAKES is Sadie Jones at her best: breathtakingly powerful, brilliantly incisive, and utterly devastating.

This gripping novel by Sadie Jones tells the tense and violent story of the Adamsons, a dysfunctional English family, with exceptional wealth, whose darkest secrets come back to bite them. Set mostly in rural France during contemporary times, THE SNAKES is an all-consuming read and a devastating portrait of how money corrupts, and how chance can deal a deadly hand.

THE SNAKES exposes the damage wreaked by parents on children as observed by a new member of the family, Dan, a mixed-race man from Peckham who marries Bea, the daughter who refuses to take any of her father's filthy money. But when Bea's brother Alex (who runs a shabby hotel in Paligny, France) dies suddenly in unexplained circumstances, the confusion and suspicion which arise bring other dark family secrets--and violence--to the surface. And none of the family, even the good members, go untouched.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062897039
• ISBN13: 9780062897039
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The Snakes

A book about family secrets, money, and death. The death of a family member brings long lost secrets to life. I just hoped the "secrets" would have been more exciting, but over all a good fast read.