“The Snakes is many things-a parable and an ancient drama where a father’s greed devours his children, a police procedural, a devoted take on tabloid venality, and a bitter comedy, superbly noticed, where behind a woman’s eyes she is ‘all motion inside herself, such as a wasp inside a cup.’ I admit that I’m still shaken by elements of this novel. Sadie Jones writes with pitiless aplomb and corrosive cleverness.”-Louise Erdrich

A chilling page-turner and out of the question to put straight down, THE SNAKES is about The Snakes: A Book Sadie Jones at her most effective: breathtakingly powerful, brilliantly incisive, and absolutely devastating.

The new book by Sadie Jones tells the anxious and violent story of the Adamsons, a dysfunctional British family, with excellent prosperity, whose darkest secrets get back to bite them. Set mainly in rural France during modern instances, THE SNAKES is an all-consuming read and a devastating family portrait of how cash corrupts, and exactly how chance can offer a deadly hands.

THE SNAKES exposes the harm wreaked by parents on children as observed by a new relation, Dan, a mixed-race man from Peckham who marries Bea, the daughter who refuses to take any of her father’s filthy cash. However when Bea’s brother Alex (who works a shabby resort in Paligny, France) dies suddenly in unexplained circumstances, the dilemma and suspicion which occur bring other dark family members secrets-and violence-to the top. And none of the family members, even the nice members, move untouched.