The Younger Wife opens with the wedding of an older man to a younger woman. During the wedding, the lights go out. When they come back on, the celebrant is covered with blood and the mystery of what happened is just starting.

The novel has an intriguing opening, and then goes back one year in time to cover the events leading up to the wedding. The Younger Wife is told using multiple points of view – the daughters of the groom and the new wife. The daughters are not happy with their father’s new romance. As the year of events unfolds, details about the characters is revealed. None of them are particularly likable characters, but it does make for an engaging read.

An intriguing psychological thriller. Family drama, lies, and secrets. Recommended for fans of this genre.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Fun, enjoyable, interesting. The characters are all a bit weird, but that's what keeps you reading. Cliffhanger ending of sorts. Solid entry in the domestic suspense category, if not completely unputdownable.

Sally Hepworth does it again with The Younger Wife. (Aside, whoever does the cover art for her books also does not miss!)

I am a big fan of Jane Eyre, so I was a fan of the somewhat subtle allusions to the classic tale.

It's a book full of secrets and nothing is quite as it seems.

Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for sharing this book with me. All thoughts are my own.

This is a super compulsive mystery from a popular but new to me author. Beware of content warnings going into this one.
This thriller wasn’t my favorite but I would still seek out more books from Sally Hepworth

I love Sally Hepworth’s writing. I immediately feel intrigued when I start one of her books. “The Younger Wife” of course makes you think something is afoot with the “new” wife, the stereotypical “gold digger” woman and the man trying to reclaim his youth. This story was so much more involved then that, and I really enjoyed it. I didn’t like Tully at first, but then as the story went on I actually felt kind of connected to her with all her anxiety and issues. It was a story that kept me guessing, and I finished it quickly because it kept me hooked!

Sally Hepworth does it again. She does a great job of blending family drama with thrills and suspense. I'm always on the edge of my seat. Rachel and Tully's dad has found a new wife. Their mother died, he also has a old ex wife.. but this wife is younger than his daughters. Clearly shes a gold digger. The daughters learn their father hasnt been the best husband.. abusive and mean. what could he be doing to this new wife?

This year, Sally Hepworth has easily become one of my top 10 favorite authors, and now a definite auto-read author for me as well. I will read any last thing this woman writes, and now need to revisit some of her older novels to catch up!

I flew through this book once I got to about the quarter mark, as I just could not stop! It's told in alternating perspectives between the two adult daughters and their father's new wife...and wow, I have no idea how Hepworth does it, but almost every single chapter ends on a cliff-hanger. Not to mention, each one is super short, thus making this book impossible to put down. I held my breath so many times at the next shocking thing that would happen, and could not fully decide who to believe until the very, very end. I also found myself very protective of all three of these women, including the new wife, who I had assumed I was supposed to despise! I loved this book, and will continue thinking about it for weeks to come. If you haven't read a Sally Hepworth novel yet, now is the time to start!

I really adored Sally Hepworth’s the good sister. It seems she has a theme of titles with family members. The mother in law was just okay. This however was my least favorite. It felt like it was building toward a big twist but then it just turned out that everyone who was suspicious was correct. I felt like it sort of manipulated the other characters mental Illnesses and challenges to try to trick you but there was really never any doubt as to what was really happening:

I am not usually one to read suspense thrillers, but Sally Hepworth changes my mind again and again. Told from multiple points of view, this was a great story. So much drama, and twists!

Another domestic drama by Sally Hepworth about a man divorcing his dementia-stricken wife and marrying another woman, who is the same age as his daughters. I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley. While I like Sally Hepworth and her books, I really didn't like or relate to any of the characters. I enjoyed Sally's storytelling; I just didn't like how this one panned out in the end and wouldn't rate it as high as her other books.

Another fantastic novel from this author. I highly enjoyed this one and would recommend it to all of my thriller enthusiast friends.

3.5 stars. I didn't enjoy this one as much as previous works. I also had a really hard time separating Rachel from Heather for some weird reason. The names and characters just didn't stand out ok their own.

This one was pretty good, blending family drama and dark suspense, but it can't compare to the twists of The Good Sister or The Mother-in-Law.

I’m no stranger to Sally Hepworth and her writing. Along with a handful of her novels, I also follow her on Instagram. She is a delight. Normally her novels or propulsive and have you flipping the pages and reading just one more chapter. The Younger Wife was a miss for me. Sally Hepworth is an excellent sorry teller, but I think maybe this one just came out too quickly after The Good Sister.

I enjoyed this book, but not as much as some of Hepworth's others. I actually read it back to back with her newest ARC and found it lacking in comparison to that one. But perhaps it was my fault for reading them that way! She is still one of my favorite authors though!

“Perhaps the very worst people still had some good in them. And perhaps the very best had some bad.”

I had high hopes for this book, as I really loved The Good Sister, but this one fell short for me. It was a slow burn without much of a thrill…I kept waiting for a plot twist and reveal, but it was all sort of predictable. So it was more of a family drama versus a domestic thriller. There were many serious issues covered (gaslighting, abuse, sexual assault, anxiety, kleptomania) perhaps too many, and instead of going deep in any one, all were left at a surface level, which took away a level of seriousness. I wanted to go deeper. There was so much potential. It was just ok for me.

In the audiobook…I did very much enjoy having three narrators for the three different POVs…I wish more books took this approach. I’m glad I listened to it bc I understand the ARC had a different ending and from what I’ve read, I’m glad it was changed.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

I never quite knew what to expect when reading Sally Hepworth’s The Younger Wife. That’s the thing with suspense/thrillers … you can’t trust your eyes and ears to interpret events correctly. Are you really seeing things as they are or is the author pulling the wool over your eyes?

Hepworth’s The Younger Wife, which I come to after reading and loving The Good Sister, is one such book that conjures up questions of perception and interpretation. It is a domestic drama involving two adult daughters, Tully and Rachel; their mother, who is suffering from dementia; and their father Stephen, who is marrying Heather, a woman younger than his own kids. Each of the women in this novel is harboring secrets of her own, and these subplots come together to build a story around the main event - Stephen’s wedding to Heather and the subsequent tragedy that is eluded to in the prologue.

The Younger Wife is a murky sort of novel that wades through a variety of tense situations that can be interpreted in multiple ways. Readers who need all plot points spelled out for them may take issue with the way Hepworth chose to write The Younger Wife, leaving readers to make their own judgments about the novel’s story and characters. With that being said, it is difficult to discuss this novel without giving much away. It truly reads as a domestic drama, letting readers into the garden variety scandals and problems of this particular family, while hinting at something more sinister lurking underneath.

I personally did not enjoy The Younger Wife as much as I did The Good Sister, perhaps because I like my plots to have more direction and not leave me with more questions than answers by the end. While I enjoyed this novel, I almost did not see the point as I finished, beyond highlighting domestic troubles within one family. I wish that Hepworth would have chosen a point to more precisely drive home instead of leaving so much open to reader interpretation.

I love Sally Hepworth’s novels, she knows how to write family/domestic suspense. With that being said, this one has to be my least favorite books I’ve read by Sally so far. This one started out strong for me and was a page turner. I loved the storyline and everything was so good right until the very ending. Then I felt a huge letdown, there was so much more potential for this ending and it just fell short for me. It was a total bummer.

I enjoyed this one the same way I have enjoyed Sally’s previous books! Its weird, suspenseful and crazy. The story of 5 people - the husband, two daughters, the wives. Like I said, its crazy but also compelling to read. The ending was different from what I was expecting but regardless it was a good one. Can always trust Sally for an entertaining story!

Thank you SMP via Netgalley for the e-arc.

Sally Hepworth did not disappoint with this one! I love how she can write suspenseful books that aren’t scary. They pull me right in and I can’t stop reading until I finished the book. I woke up early one morning, started reading, and skipped my daily workout because I couldn’t put the book down.