Darling Girls

A Heart-Pounding Suspense Novel About Sisters, Secrets, Love and Murder That Will Keep You Turning the Pages

By: Sally Hepworth

Narrated by: Jessica Clarke

A thrilling story 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 listening . . .


Authors love Sally Hepworth:

'Completely compulsive' - Jane Harper

'Women’s fiction at its finest' - Liane Moriarty

'Smart suspenseful, brimming with secrets' - Kate Morton

'Clever, chilling and beautifully crafted’ - Adele Parks


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'


Listeners love Darling Girls in audiobook:

***** 'The narrator was excellent and very easy to listen to'

***** 'I loved this from the first chapter'

***** 'I cannot say enough good things about it'

***** 'Narrator was brilliant. Highly recommend'

Critic reviews

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

Suspenseful page-turner

A suspenseful psychological thriller, poignantly shrouding a decades old mystery

Split between the sisters’ perspectives, Darling Girls is a thoughtfully written, slow-burn mystery about sisterhood, secrets and foster system failures

Tingling tension galore

Another great Sally Hepworth book

Great suspense filled story. I loved the focus on sisters, the beautifully developed characters, a story about foster care - something many of us never encounter. There was a lot in the pace and storylines here. It was so hard not to rush-binge listen my way through this audiobook, the hard copy might have slowed me a little more to savour the details and piece together the clues a little better. Slow down and savour this one to enjoy every piece of the puzzle.