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Sally Hepworth is an Australian New York Times bestselling author of domestic thriller, women’s fiction and literary fiction.

She is best known for writing The Good Sister (2021) and The Mother-In-Law (2019), with the latter being optioned for a TV series by Hollywood actress and producer, Amy Poehler.

Exploring the good, the bad and the thoroughly bizarre aspects of human behavior, Sally writes passionately about family, relationships and identity.

Prior to becoming a novelist, Sally worked in both event management and Human Resources.

Her novels have since been translated into 20 languages, selling more than a million copies across the globe.

Sally currently resides in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children.

More about Sally Hepworth

Genres: Literary Fiction, Thriller, Women's Fiction

Born: 1980

Australia

Website: https://www.sallyhepworthauthor.com/

Non Series

  • The Secrets of Midwives (2015)
  • The Things We Keep (2016)
  • The Mother's Promise (2017)
  • The Family Next Door (2018)
  • The Mother-in-Law (2019)
  • The Good Sister (2021)
  • The Younger Wife (2021)
  • The Soulmate (2023)

Getaway collection

  1. Uncharted Waters (Book One) (2022)

Detailed book overview

Non Series

The Secrets of Midwives

Three generations of women.

Secrets in the present and from the past.

A captivating tale of life, loss, and love...

Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy-including the identity of the baby's father- hidden from her family and co-workers for as long as possible. Her mother, Grace, finds it impossible to let this secret rest. The more Grace prods, the tighter Neva holds to her story, and the more the lifelong differences between private, quiet Neva and open, gregarious Grace strain their relationship.

For Floss, Neva's grandmother and a retired midwife, Neva's situation thrusts her back sixty years in time to a secret that eerily mirrors her granddaughter's-one which, if revealed, will have life-changing consequences for them all. As Neva's pregnancy progresses and speculation makes it harder and harder to conceal the truth, Floss wonders if hiding her own truth is ultimately more harmful than telling it. Will these women reveal their secrets and deal with the inevitable consequences? Or are some secrets best kept hidden?

Author: Sally Hepworth
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1250051912
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
The Things We Keep

Anna Forster is only thirty-eight years old, but her mind is slowly slipping away from her. Armed only with her keen wit and sharp-eyed determination, she knows that her family is doing what they believe to be best when they take her to Rosalind House, an assisted living facility. But Anna has a secret: she does not plan on staying. She also knows there’s just one another resident who is her age, Luke. What she does not expect is the love that blossoms between her and Luke even as she resists her new life. As her disease steals more and more of her memory, Anna fights to hold on to what she knows, including her relationship with Luke.

Eve Bennett, suddenly thrust into the role of single mother to her bright and vivacious seven-year-old daughter, finds herself putting her culinary training to use at Rosalind house. When she meets Anna and Luke, she is moved by the bond the pair has forged. But when a tragic incident leads Anna’s and Luke’s families to separate them, Eve finds herself questioning what she is willing to risk to help them. Eve has her own secrets, and her own desperate circumstances that raise the stakes even higher.

Author: Sally Hepworth
First Release: 2016
ISBN: 978-1250051929
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
The Mother's Promise

All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter, Zoe, have been a family of two, living quietly in Northern California. Zoe has always struggled with crippling social anxiety and her mother has been her constant and fierce protector. With no family to speak of, and the identity of Zoe’s father shrouded in mystery, their team of two works―until it doesn’t. Until Alice gets sick and needs to fight for her life.

Desperate to find stability for Zoe, Alice reaches out to two women who are practically strangers but who are her only hope: Kate, a nurse, and Sonja, a social worker. As the four of them come together, a chain of events is set into motion and all four of them must confront their sharpest fears and secrets―secrets about abandonment, abuse, estrangement, and the deepest longing for family.

Author: Sally Hepworth
First Release: 2017
ISBN: 978-1250077769
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
The Family Next Door

Small, perfect towns often hold the deepest secrets.

From the outside, Essie’s life looks idyllic: a loving husband, a beautiful house in a good neighborhood, and a nearby mother who dotes on her grandchildren. But few of Essie’s friends know her secret shame: that in a moment of maternal despair, she once walked away from her newborn, asleep in her carriage in a park. Disaster was avoided and Essie got better, but she still fears what lurks inside her, even as her daughter gets older and she has a second baby.

When a new woman named Isabelle moves in next door to Essie, she is an immediate object of curiosity in the neighborhood. Why single, when everyone else is married with children? Why renting, when everyone else owns? What mysterious job does she have? And why is she so fascinated with Essie? As the two women grow closer and Essie’s friends voice their disapproval, it starts to become clear that Isabelle’s choice of neighborhood was no accident. And that her presence threatens to bring shocking secrets to light.

Author: Sally Hepworth
First Release: 2018
ISBN: 978-1250120908
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
The Mother-in-Law

One woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law ends in death...

From the moment Lucy met her husband’s mother, she knew she wasn’t the wife Diana had envisioned for her perfect son. Exquisitely polite, friendly, and always generous, Diana nonetheless kept Lucy at arm’s length despite her desperate attempts to win her over. And as a pillar in the community, an advocate for female refugees, and a woman happily married for decades, no one had a bad word to say about Diana…except Lucy.

That was five years ago.

Now, Diana is dead, a suicide note found near her body claiming that she longer wanted to live because of the cancer wreaking havoc inside her body.

But the autopsy finds no cancer.

It does find traces of poison, and evidence of suffocation.

Who could possibly want Diana dead? Why was her will changed at the eleventh hour to disinherit both of her children, and their spouses? And what does it mean that Lucy isn’t exactly sad she’s gone?

Author: Sally Hepworth
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1250120939
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
The Good Sister

There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights, and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be...dangerous.

When Rose discovers that she cannot get pregnant, Fern sees her chance to pay her sister back for everything Rose has done for her. Fern can have a baby for Rose. She just needs to find a father. Simple.

Fern's mission will shake the foundations of the life she has carefully built for herself and stir up dark secrets from the past, in this quirky, rich, and shocking story of what families keep hidden.

Author: Sally Hepworth
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-1250120960
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
The Younger Wife

THE HUSBAND

A heart surgeon at the top of his field, Stephen Aston is getting married again. But first he must divorce his current wife, even though she can no longer speak for herself.

THE DAUGHTERS

Tully and Rachel Aston look upon their father’s fiancée, Heather, as nothing but an interloper. Heather is younger than both of them. Clearly, she’s after their father’s money.

THE FORMER WIFE

With their mother in a precarious position, Tully and Rachel are determined to get to the

truth about their family’s secrets, the new wife closing in, and who their father really is.

THE YOUNGER WIFE

Heather has secrets of her own. Will getting to the truth unleash the most dangerous impulses in all of them?

Author: Sally Hepworth
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-1250229687
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
The Soulmate

There’s a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa’s dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn’t.

When Pippa discovers Gabe knew the victim, the questions spiral...Did the victim jump? Was she pushed?

And would Gabe, the love of Pippa’s life, her soulmate...lie? As the perfect facade of their marriage begins to crack, the deepest and darkest secrets begin to unravel.

Author: Sally Hepworth
First Release: 2023
Ebook: B09Y467GZY
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Getaway collection

Uncharted Waters (Book One)

When Ella boards a sumptuous charter off the coast of Australia, she feels…dread. Her husband, Mac, the social butterfly who makes these wellness retreats so much easier to navigate, is stuck at work, leaving her exposed to the other passengers. Luckily, she forms an instant bond with the charismatic Chloe, a newly single woman salving a broken heart. But as the friendship grows, Ella discovers they share more than the need for an escape, and their devastating connection has the power to forever alter their lives.

NB: Uncharted Waters by Sally Hepworth is part of Getaway, a collection of six stories about dream escapes that take unimaginable, even sinister, turns. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single sitting.

Here is the complete list of the series by various authors:

Uncharted Waters (2022) by Sally Hepworth

His Happy Place (2022) by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Stockholm (2022) by Catherine Steadman

Belle Mer (2022) by Luanne Rice

Catch Her in a Lie (2022) by Jess Lourey

Shell Game (2022) by Rumaan Alam

Author: Sally Hepworth
First Release: 2022
Ebook: B0B58L5C8J
Publisher: Amazon Original Stories