The Queen Of Bloody Everything Joanna Nadin

(Mantle, £14.99) HYBRID Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere meets The Royal Tenenbaums.

IN A NUTSHELL Dido wants a different mother – she’d settle for one that doesn’t bring home younger men in beat-up cars after drinking all day. But, specifically, she wants Tom and Harry’s mum – her next-door neighbours. And she resents everything, until it’s too late.

FIRST LINE “So, how shall I begin? With once upon a time maybe?”

READ IT On a striped deckchair, in your garden. This will take you back to the heady summers of childhood.