Darling Girls
by Sally Hepworth
Hepworth's specialty is turning ordinary domestic setups into slow-burn dread, and Darling Girls (three foster sisters, one buried body, one controlling foster mother) follows that same playbook of secrets surfacing under a likable-narrator twist.
why track this in moth
Domestic thrillers live or die on the reveal; Moth's notes are handy for jotting your suspect theories as you go and checking how wrong (or right) you were after the twist.
Book facts
- Genre
- Fiction, Thrillers, Domestic, Women
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- January 1, 2024
- Pages
- 368
- Reading time
- 7 hr 18 min · ~18 nights at 25 min/day in Moth
- ISBN
- 9781250341877
- Language
- en
Publisher's summary
SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth's novel Darling Girls has it all. For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance at a happy family life. But their childhood wasn't the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. Miss Fairchild had rules. Miss Fairchild could be unpredictable. And Miss Fairchild was never, ever to be crossed. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild and thought they were free. Even though they never saw her again, she was always somewhere in the shadows of their minds. When a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses. Or are they prime suspects? A thrilling page-turner of sisterhood, secrets, love, and murder by New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth. "Sally Hepworth writes characters you love." --LIANE MORIARTY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF APPLES NEVER FALL
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