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After ‘Cleopatra & Frankenstein’ Success, Coco Mellors Explores Sister Dynamics in ‘Blue Sisters’

In many ways, Coco Mellors found sudden success with her debut novel, “Cleopatra and Frankenstein.” The book, released in 2022, became a national bestseller and a TV adaptation from Warner Brothers is in the works — yet it took the writer five years to complete and get the book sold, making it feel like a much longer process.  Over the last two of those years, she was at work on her next book, which has finally arrived on shelves. “Blue Sisters” follows three estranged sisters — Bonnie, Avery and Lucky, each living separate lives in separate cities — who reunite after the death of their fourth sister, Nicky, when they learn their parents plan to sell the New York apartment where they grew up. “I knew I wanted to write about siblings, I wanted to write about sisters,” says the London-raised, New York-based author. “I was very inspired by something that a friend of mine, who’s one of four sisters, had said to me: if you don’t know my sisters, you don’t know me. And so I really loved this idea of we’re so defined by our siblings and by our birth order within a family.” The Blue sisters “came to me almost

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