WOW....is that enough of a review? Talk about a page-turner! Three foster siblings are contacted years after they left their abusive foster mother because bones have been found at the home where they lived. Through past events and current scenes, we see how they were scarred for life but maintained a loving environment for each other.

The galley I read had a TON of typos, lol, which normally would bother me but I know they will get cleaned up before publication. That being said, even with all of the errors, it STILL drew me in night after night.

p.s....don't walk away from the book too soon or you'll miss the twist at the very end.

Thanks to Netgalley for the arc to review.

Three women, who grew up in foster care together, are forced to face their turbulent childhood when their childhood home reveals a mystery neither knew about. With each page, there's a new twist, just when you think you have figured out exactly what the mystery is. The ending is truly a surprise!! I really loved this book and wish I could have given it more than 5 stars!! I highly recommend this one!!!

Darling Girls was a super well written book! It was an easy read and hard to put down. I often read Sally Hepworth's books and found this to be a great story. just not my favorite of hers.

3.5 ⭐️
Thank you NetGalley and St Martin's Press for the advance reader edition of the book in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was a book that started off a little slow to me, but picked up as the pages were turned. There are alot of questions surrounding a body found in a basement where 3 foster girls lived for a time. It’s a multiple POV story with alternating timelines, so that can be confusing if you have trouble with multistory POV’s. A couple of twists did occur and the ending was fantastic.

I loved this book. I mostly read romance but this was a very effective pallet cleanser. I loved how the story was written from different POVs as well and present and past, the mystery of who was in the therapists office was a great twist. Darling Girls follows 3 girls who grew up in foster care and who are now recounting their experience as the house they grew up in has become the subject of a police investigation. Each of the girls came to live with their foster mother Miss Fairchild for different reasons but what they all have in common is realizing the sweet, innocent and loving woman Miss Fairchild presents herself as is anything but the truth.

I found it really intriguing to see how the girls dealt with the challenges of growing up in this house, how it affected them then and how it is still having an impact on them in adulthood. I was absolutely captivated and had a hard time putting this book down. I will be sure to pick up more books by this author in the future.

Thank you, NetGalley, for an advanced copy of Darling Girls in exchange for a review.

This has got to be my favorite Sally Hepworth to date. I couldn’t put it down! I finished it on a 4 hour plane ride. It’s got everything you could want…great characters, unique storyline, mystery/intrigue. The ending felt a bit rushed, but again, the book overall was fantastic. I can’t wait for it to hit shelves because people are going to be obsessed!

Absolutely loved this book! For anyone who loves a good, slow burn with great plot twists THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU!
Darling Girls follows the story of 3 foster girls who retell the events of growing up in a psychologically abusive foster home while telling the current story of a body being found under their old foster home. You wont be able to stop reading as the sorry unfolds!
Thank you NetGalley & Sally Hepworth for the opportunity to read this ARC.

Darling Girls centers around three women, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia. As children, the women lived in a foster home together and ended up being closer than friends, they became sisters. The home they lived in was called Wild Meadows and it was run by a very mercurial and narcissistic woman named Miss Fairchild.

Decades after leaving, each of the women receives a call from a detective telling them that the police need to speak with them because they discovered bones buried at Wild Meadows. The women must all face their nightmarish past by returning to the place where so many of their dark memories began.

This is my fifth read by Sally Hepworth and has turned out to be my favorite. The story is told through each of the three women's points of view and I found each POV to be very compelling. After enduring such a traumatic time at their shared foster home, each of the three women had their own set of problems they had to work through. I found myself getting very invested in each of their stories and ended up rooting for all of them.

The pacing in the story is excellent and in true Sally Hepworth fashion, the last chapter is completely mind-blowing! At times the story is completely devastating and at others it's darkly humorous, but overall I thought this found family tale centered around the bonds of sisterhood to be amazing and I would highly recommend it.

Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth will be available on April 24. 2024. Many thanks to St Martin’s Press and NetGalley for the gifted copy!

Sally Hepworth is always a consistent and enjoyable read, but I’ve been chasing the same love I had for The Good Sister and jn Darling Girls she delivers!

This was a great mystery with a strong found family and minor romance sub plots, I was thoroughly invested the whole time and though maybe not the most epic of twists it was still just a solid plot with great characters.

As a die-hard fan of Sara Shepard and Pretty Little Liars I was really excited when I got approved to read Nowhere Like Home. The first thing I will say is that you cannot go into this book thinking it’s going to be like Pretty Little Liars, it’s definitely a different vibe. As a mom who has social anxiety, I really appreciated the characters and the struggles they had. I think the main character was a little too dependent and focused on finding friendships so she didn’t follow her instincts which caused a lot of trouble for her. I liked how it was written in different perspectives. I really enjoyed the “mommune” scenes and that’s when the book really was hard to put down for me. I was really happy with the main characters growth and and the ending. I read this in a day, it was hard to put down and it was a fun read. Definitely put this on your TBR for February2024. #sarashepard #nowherelikehome #netgalley

Jessica, Norah, and Alicia are not sisters in the biological sisters, but sisters in every other way that counts. They have been together since their foster care years at Wild Meadows, the name of the home owned by their former foster mother, Miss Fairchild. The years they endured with Miss Fairchild and he volatile torrent of physical and psychological abuse have left lasting scars that the women still grapple with as adults.

Their lives are disrupted when police detectives contact them. It seems that the body of an infant has been found underneath the house at Wild Meadows. The police have questions and hope they can provide some clarity to this mystery. As the women reluctantly travel from Melbourne to their infamous former home, they realize that at long last the past must be confronted and the monster they have tried so desperately to elude-Miss Fairchild-must be faced.

Sally Hepworth delivers a suspenseful thrill ride of a novel that pivots effortlessly from the past to the present reality. Multiple points of view-Jessica, Norah, Alicia, and Miss Fairchild-give further context to the novel. The twists keep coming until the last page that delivers a final one-two punch of a twist!

***Trigger warnings for child abuse


I'm a fan of Sally Hepworth's other novels and her latest work is her finest yet. I highly recommend this novel!

Although, I think it’s impossible for her to write a BAD book-this just wasn’t a favorite.

Jessica, Norah and Alicia share a bond that takes them back decades, to when they were girls, and they lived on a farm with a wicked foster mother named Miss Fairchild. They may not be sisters by blood, but they are as close as three sisters can be.

When bones are discovered buried under the farmhouse of their childhood, they are summoned by Police to tell what they might know.

The story opens in the office of Dr. Warren, Psychiatrist- but which woman is speaking with him?

We then alternate between the PAST and the PRESENT, examining both through the viewpoints of all three girls/women. It isn’t confusing at all, but I rarely enjoy spending half of a book with children, especially those who are being ABUSED in FOSTER CARE.

But, that’s a “me thing” as the book has all 5 star ⭐️ reviews so far!!

As ALWAYS, Sally Hepworth writes another SHOCKING ending, which will probably be met with more controversy and mixed feelings! I always ENJOY them (extra half star for the surprise reveal!) regardless of how DISTURBING or UPSETTING the ending might be.

And, I only hope that this time, she gets to KEEP the ending she wants!!

I always love sally Hepworth books! You cannot put them down and this one is not an exception! The story was thrilling without being too creepy or scary.

essica, Norah, & Alicia couldn’t be any more different, but they share the same dark past— at Wild Meadows Foster Home. Not sisters by blood, but sisters by experience, & they all receive the same phone call on the same day. There have been human remains found at the old Wild Meadows Foster Home…
The story is a little hard to follow at times, I found, and also a bit of a drag. I did enjoy the ending, and everything that led to it. I didn’t truly get into the book until about 65% though. LOTS of typos— That said, this was an ARC but still. So. Many. Typos.
This wasn’t my favorite, but it was far from my least favorite. I will more than likely give SH a second chance, because I have heard lots of amazing things about her. This book just wasn’t it for me.

As always Sally Hepworth goes to the top of my TBR pile.

In this book Sally writes an artful story about a less than conventional family. There are four POVs throughout this book, one for each of the three "sisters" and one whom is a mystery voice that is not revealed until the end. The POVs also shift from the before to the current time giving a lovely story that unfolds nicely.

Sally is skilled in the way she weaves her story but also ties up all the loose ends at the end leaving some questionable doubt in your mind as to the truth behind the story but also the leaves you wanting to read her next book. This one is the same and does not disappoint.

Ooooh, Darling Girls was SUCH a good thriller! Absolutely a 5 star read for me.

The sisters’ voices were all unique and did a great job of standing on their own. I liked the different POVs and getting all the different sides of the story…and I mean *all* of them. I enjoyed the three different timelines and seeing the sister relationship develop.

I don’t want to go too into details because of spoilers, but if you like twisty baby thrillers, Darling Girls is for you!

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this title. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book was quite disturbing. The foster mother is so terrible, I couldn’t get past the first 20%. There was too much child abuse to read further. I received an advanced reading copy from netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

I’ve never been disappointed with a Sally Hepworth novel and Darling Girls was no exception. Yet another well written psychological domestic mystery with lots of twists and suspense!

3 foster sisters with an incredible bond come together when bones are discovered under the house where they once all lived together. Whose bones are they? How did they end up buried in the basement? I had lots of hunches along the way but never really had it all figured out. Lots of back story is provided in past/present chapters along with bits of conversation that someone is having with Dr. Warren, a psychiatrist. It’s not instantly obvious who Dr. Warren is speaking with, which helps the story slowly unravel and come together. I also appreciated the closure chapters that were provided at the end for each of the sisters and Miss Fairchild. Hepworth certainly knows how to write a captivating story to keep her readers turning the pages!

Thanks to NetGalley for the Advanced Copy in exchange for my honest review. Release date is set for April 23, 2024

Sally Hepworth is notorious for her suspense build and twists. The last twist I did not foresee and was shocked enough to move this to a 5 star. The psychological content involves foster children that are down on their luck then they end up in an abusive caretaker's home. Miss Fairchild appeared as the perfect fit for young Jessica when she moved in. She loved her and cared for her then disturbing things began to occur. When two more girls, Alicia and Norah, moved in, as well as many others, the girls went to the police when they witnessed the abuse of a toddler, Amy. When Amy is nowhere to be found and told it was a figment of their imagination, they were resolved to forget about it.

25 years later, bones are discovered when the foster home Wild Meadows is demolished. The 3 girls had remained as close as real sisters through the years. They were terrified when summoned and interviewed by the police about the place.
Be prepared! That ending is disturbing and shocking!!
Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Very solid psychological thriller, gives me hardcore silent patient vibes. Loved the twist, thought it was original and I didn’t see it coming. The characters were developed so well, and seeing their growth along the story was very rewarding and satisfying. I also liked that there was an epilogue! I truly was captivated every turn and was so intrigued. That being said there were a few minor plot points that weren’t super believable, but weren’t deal breakers by any means. I think that this is going to make an absolutely sick adaptation, hopefully hulu or hbo gets the rights and makes a show to the tune of Big Little Lies or 9 Perfect Strangers. Recommend this to all of my twisty book loving friends.

Thanks to Netgalley and st Martian’s press for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review!