A thrilling page-turner about sisterhood, secrets, love and murder by Sally Hepworth, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and The Mother-in-Law.
It’s not just secrets buried at Wild Meadows.
For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. Rescued from their own family tragedies, they were raised by a loving foster mother on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance for a happy family life.
But the girls’ childhood wasn’t quite the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. And when a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the three foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses.
It’s time for them to return home as adults. The only question is are they innocent victims or the prime suspects for murder?
With darkly comic timing and insidiously twisting plots, Sally Hepworth’s novels are guaranteed to keep you turning the pages . . .
Authors love Sally Hepworth:
'Completely compulsive' - Jane Harper, author of Exiles
'Women’s fiction at its finest' - Liane Moriarty, author of Big Little Lies
'Smart suspenseful, brimming with secrets' - Kate Morton, author of Homecoming
'Clever, chilling and beautifully crafted’ - Adele Parks, author of Just Between Us
Reviewers love Sally Hepworth:
'Very sensitively told' - Daily Mail
'Compels from the first page' - Heat
'Stunningly clever' - People
Readers love Sally Hepworth:
'I absolutely loved it and couldn't put it down!'
'Twists and turns from start to finish!!'
'Suspenseful, and twisty, the most fantastically compulsive reading'
'I was gripped from start to finish and I literally couldn’t turn the pages fast enough'
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781035038879
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 254 g
Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 22 mm
Sally Hepworth's Darling Girls is the kind of story that grabs you hard and doesn't let go. Easily one of the best books I've read all year. An absolute page-turner from first word to last, and a story told with wit and compassion. It's got HUGE HIT written all over it, and I'm going to be pressing it into the hands of everyone I know. A superb and haunting mystery - Jane Harper, bestselling author of Exiles
A fun psychological suspense thriller - Emily Henry, author of Book Lovers and Happy Place
Gripping - Daily Mail
Suspenseful page-turner - My Weekly
A suspenseful psychological thriller, poignantly shrouding a decades old mystery - Woman's Weekly
Split between the sisters’ perspectives, Darling Girls is a thoughtfully written, slow-burn mystery about sisterhood, secrets and foster system failures - Culturefly
Tingling tension galore - Peterborough Telegraph
After hearing so many good reviews of Sally Hepworth’s books, I thought it was high time I read one too. This is how I find myself reading Darling Girls.
The book is told in dual timeline, twenty five years apart,...
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The voices of each sister rang clear and I love characters that are well written. Each sister has her own style and identity, but each carried the shared scars of their childhood. I couldn't put it down. I... More
This is a dark and unsettling novel about what life is like for those children that go through the foster care system and how the events in their past still affect them as adults. The narrative flips between delving... More
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