A Little Bit Bad

Name: A Little Bit Bad
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ISBN: 9780241792902

Cassandra Neyenesch

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Fig Tree
05 May 2026

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Fiction: special features

Big Swiss meets All Fours in this dazzlingly wild, darkly funny debut about desire and obsession, motherhood and marriage and the irresistible intoxication of blowing up your life

Perdita Jungfrau thought she was going to be married to her husband forever, so falling in love with Nando, her 'anarcho-Marxist' handyman, is a crisis.

Life seems to put every possible obstacle in their way- she's pregnant, he has a girlfriend, he's fifteen years younger, she's terrified of messing up her children and equally drawn towards this magnetic man who entrusts her with his deepest secret.

Now it's three years later and Nando has been murdered.

As her bewildered husband tries to make sense of the wildly unpredictable person his wife has become, Perdita has other things on her mind. For starters, who is the mysterious woman sitting outside her house in a parked car all day? How can she stop her adored baby brother from being pulled under by his opioid addiction? Can someone with a childhood like hers ever be the mother her children deserve?

And most of all, what should she do with the searing memories of the affair that turned her life upside down?

By: Cassandra Neyenesch
Imprint: Fig Tree
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9780241792902
ISBN 10: 0241792908
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 05 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Cassandra Neyenesch is a Brooklyn-based writer and curator whose reviews and cultural pieces have appeared in The Guardian, Brooklyn Rail, Huffington Post, Public Books, The International Herald Tribune, and Art in America.

Reviews for A Little Bit Bad

A Little Bit Bad is wholly original and compulsively readable. It’s fresh, dark, subversive and wildly compelling. I can’t stop thinking about it. Neyenesch turns the suspense genre on its head in the best way; I couldn’t get enough * Sophie Stava, author of Count My Lies *