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Little Apples Grow is coming on 1 December

Little Apples Grow by Kadie Vellis, out 1 December

Updated 10 November 2026 · 2 minute read · By Kadie Vellis

I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, and I can finally tell you: Little Apples Grow is out on Kindle on 1 December, and you can pre-order it now.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Rosie Hart takes a live-in job caring for Vi Driscoll, the dying head of a feared East End family. The house is old and crumbling, it backs onto the cemetery in Highgate, and the Driscolls have buried a great many things over the years.

Rosie says she’s there to help. She isn’t.

Little Apples Grow by Kadie Vellis, book cover

Why the title?

Little apples grow on little trees: the old saying behind Little Apples Grow

There’s an old saying, little apples grow on little trees. Children turn out like the people who raised them. I couldn’t stop thinking about what that means when the people who raised you are the Driscolls, and what it means for the people they hurt along the way.

If you pre-order, it’ll land on your Kindle the morning it comes out, so you can start reading before anyone has the chance to spoil it.