Review: Darling Girls - Sally Hepworth

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Review: Darling Girls - Sally Hepworth - April 2024

This year I decided each month to treat myself to a Book Box from The Book Shoppe, which is a subscription-based company in New Zealand. You get one book and then 3-4 gifts related to certain pages in the book. It's a great way to read as it's an immersive experience. I had read a couple of books by Sally Hepworth. One was The Good Sister which is still on my list of top thrillers and the other was The Younger Wife which was the opposite spectrum as a DNF. The Darling Girls sits in the middle of the pack for me. The book gives hints that the three sisters who were together in foster care, experienced abuse and horrific things and that there was a foster home they managed to escape from. Now twenty years later, workers have been clearing an area and found the bones of a child. The girls have been called back along with three others that the main three knew as the babies. Who is the dead body and is it Amy - the missing fourth sister? The ones the girls tried to save as children, but were labelled liars? Darling Girls is a past/present novel that has the three main girls recalling their arrival at the foster home and their experiences there. If you don't mind reading books that contain child abuse and awful foster life, then Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth is the Australian Fiction read for you as it is also set in Melbourne and Port Arthur.

The Book Shoppe Box Link - https://thebookshoppe.co.nz/products/november-book-box-darling-girls






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