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I had tried to be a good person and live a nice, normal life. It wasn’t working out. Why was I such a no-but-er? I would be a yes-ander!... And after that moment, I didn’t give another little f*ck what I did.

Perdita Jungfrau thought she was going to be married to her husband forever, so falling in love with Nando, her neighbour's anarcho-Marxist roofer, 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 which turned her life upside down?

'So charismatic and confiding; I felt as if I'd found my new (and very bad) best friend' ELEANOR CATTON

© Cassandra Neyenesch 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

Critics Review

So charismatic and confiding; I felt as if I'd found my new (and very bad) best friend
Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood
Structurally thrilling, viciously funny and subversive. Neyenesch’s magnetic narrator says the unsayable and thinks the unforgivable – and I would follow her anywhere. I adored every wicked page
Catherine Chidgey, author of The Book of Guilt
Sexy, dangerous, shocking, funny - A Little Bit Bad Is to die for. The most fun you can have with a novel. Perdita is the best bitch in modern fiction yet the anti-heroine we all want and need in our lives
Rachel Johnson
Wholly original and compulsively readable ... 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
Enthralling: a feisty true-crime obsessive's erotic awakening in the canyons of California embroils her in her very own murder mystery. Pretty much the platonic-ideal beach read
Ada Calhoun, author of Crush
A Little Bit Bad is a wild ride. Neyenesch has a totally original voice and a fresh perspective on life
Esther Walker
The ripple effects of Miranda July's hugely successful All Fours can be seen in several debuts this year that address sex, desire and monogamy. A Little Bit Bad by Cassandra Neyenesch concerns a woman who has an affair with her neighbour's roofer
BBC – The 40 most exciting books to look forward to in 2026
Mordantly funny and perfectly pitched….Original and hilarious
Kirkus Reviews
Author Cassandra Neyenesch
Narrator Suehyla El-Attar Young
Duration 10 hours and 20 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405987387
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Availability AU, GB, IE

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