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Shred Sisters

Betsy Lerner

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VERVE BOOKS
01 October 2025
No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister.

It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilised. Meet the Shreds. Ollie is the sister in the spotlight until her stunning confidence becomes erratic and unpredictable, a hurricane leaving people wrecked in her wake. Younger sister Amy, cautious and studious to the core, believes in facts, proof and the empirical world. None of that explains what's happening to Ollie, whose physical beauty and charisma mask the mental illness that will shatter Amy's carefully constructed life.

As Amy comes of age and seeks to find her place

first in academia, then New York publishing, and through a series of troubled relationships

every step brings collisions with Ollie, who slips in and out of the Shred family without warning. Yet for all that threatens their sibling bond, Amy and Ollie cannot escape or deny the inextricable sister knot that binds them.

Spanning two decades, Shred Sisters is an intimate and bittersweet story exploring the fierce complexities of sisterhood, mental health, loss and love.
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Imprint:   VERVE BOOKS
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm, 
ISBN:   9780857309242
ISBN 10:   0857309242
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Betsy Lerner is the author of the popular advice book to writers, The Forest for the Trees, and the memoirs Food and Loathing and The Bridge Ladies. She received an MFA from Columbia University in Poetry. A publishing professional for over thirty years, Lerner is a literary agent in New York. Shred Sisters is her first novel.

Reviews for Shred Sisters

Accomplished... A poignantly engrossing tale for anyone caught in the webs of sibling rivalry * Financial Times * A sensitive exploration of loving someone with mental health issues, with characters you'll fall for * Good Housekeeping * Lerner... is incapable of writing an unnecessary sentence * Daily Mail * I love this book. It moves like a souped-up pickup truck -- Patti Smith, author of Just Kids Lerner has created a richly layered family novel that manages to be raucously funny, insightful, and tender... I will be thinking about the Shred Sisters for a long time -- Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of Good Company


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