The hilarious, razor sharp and oh-so-readable novel that was Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut marked her out as a bold new voice with a talent for finding comedy in the macabre. A word of mouth sensation that topped bestseller lists and was shortlisted for the Woman’s Prize for Fiction , My Sister, the Serial Killer was also the kind of runaway hit that all novelists dream of.

Seven years later, Braithwaite is back with Cursed Daughters, her much anticipated and equally good follow-up. But what has she been reading in the meantime? Here, the author shares the dark comedies that have shaped her life and writing…

We Have Always lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

“The Blackwoods – father, mother, aunt, and brother – have been poisoned by a mixture of arsenic and sugar. They are surviv

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