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  • "Deliciously entertaining!" —People Magazine's "People Pick"
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  • O Magazine's "15 Best Beach Books of the Year So Far"
  • Bustle "Best Book of April"
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  • Cosmopolitan "Best Book of April"
  • Woman's Day's "27 Fiction Books of 2019 to Add to Your Reading List ASAP"
  • BookBub's "Biggest Books of April"
  • PopSugar's "30 Must-Read Books of 2019"

    A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that 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?
    Fractured relationships and deep family secrets grow more compelling with every page in this twisty, captivating new novel from Sally Hepworth.
    Praise for Sally Hepworth:
    "With jaw-dropping discoveries, and realistic consequences, this novel is not to be missed. Perfect for lovers of Big Little Lies." —Library Journal, starred review
    "Hepworth deftly keeps the reader turning pages and looking for clues, all the while building multilayered characters and carefully doling out bits of their motivations." —Booklist

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  • "Deliciously entertaining!" —People Magazine's "People Pick"
  • Entertainment Weekly's "MUST List"
  • O Magazine's "15 Best Beach Books of the Year So Far"
  • Bustle "Best Book of April"
  • Refinery29 "Best Book of April"
  • Cosmopolitan "Best Book of April"
  • Woman's Day's "27 Fiction Books of 2019 to Add to Your Reading List ASAP"
  • BookBub's "Biggest Books of April"
  • PopSugar's "30 Must-Read Books of 2019"

    A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that 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?
    Fractured relationships and deep family secrets grow more compelling with every page in this twisty, captivating new novel from Sally Hepworth.
    Praise for Sally Hepworth:
    "With jaw-dropping discoveries, and realistic consequences, this novel is not to be missed. Perfect for lovers of Big Little Lies." —Library Journal, starred review
    "Hepworth deftly keeps the reader turning pages and looking for clues, all the while building multilayered characters and carefully doling out bits of their motivations." —Booklist

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        • source: Good Morning America
        • content: "A deliciously entertaining novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death. This one is perfect for fans of Big Little Lies."
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        • source: People magazine
        • content: "Deliciously entertaining, packed with wit and suspense, and also delivers sharp insights about family dynamics and love."
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        • source: Booklist, starred review
        • content: "A masterful depiction of how much is said in the silences...a winner for fans of Liane Moriarty and Megan Abbott."
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        • source: Kirkus
        • content: "A mesmerizing domestic mystery."
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        • source: Publishers Weekly
        • content: "Hepworth's short, punchy chapters keep the pages quickly turning while effortlessly deepening her characters. Readers will race to the end of this clever novel to find the truth."
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        • source: Woman's Day
        • content: "We devoured it in just one sitting. Bet you will too!"
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        • source: Entertainment Weekly
        • content: "At last, sticky in-law tension gets the chilly thriller treatment. In Hepworth's anticipated new page-turner, one woman's complex relationship with her mother-in-law ends in death."
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        • source: Refinery29
        • content: "Get ready for the kind of Gone Girl-level twists you may have fantasized about during awkward holiday gatherings."
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          February 25, 2019
          Hepworth (The Family Next Door) takes readers on a suspenseful ride as a family copes with the suspicious suicide of its matriarch. Lucy has never thought her mother-in-law, Diana Goodwin, liked her since they first met a decade earlier. Chapters in the first person from both Diana’s and Lucy’s perspectives reveal their deepest feelings and desires, highlighting past events such as the day Lucy married Diana’s son, Ollie, and Diana’s problems with depression after the death of her husband, Tom, moving forward to the time of Diana’s apparent suicide. The investigation of the suicide changes dramatically when police learn that Diana didn’t have breast cancer, as she had told her family she did. Furthermore, evidence emerges indicating she may have been murdered. Police question Lucy, Ollie, Ollie’s sister, Nettie, and her husband, Patrick, about their involvement in the possible murder, and each of them have motives, especially Lucy, given her contentious history with Diana. Hepworth’s short, punchy chapters keep the pages quickly turning while effortlessly deepening her characters. Readers will race to the end of this clever novel to find the truth.

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          February 15, 2019
          When Diana, the matriarch of the Goodwin family, unexpectedly dies soon after her beloved husband's death, suicide seems the logical explanation. But the circumstances of her death quickly point to homicide, and too many family members seem to have motives.When Lucy first met Diana, 10 years ago, she had desperately hoped to find a warm, loving future mother-in-law. And while her fiance, Ollie, adores his mother, his sister, Nettie, and her husband, Patrick, wryly warn her that Diana has always been more practical than sentimental. Aloof and absorbed with her volunteer work with refugees, Diana is an elegant woman of few words but lots of money. Although she is devoted to helping others navigate childbirth and the job market, she is loath to give her own children any money because she is convinced that they should have the opportunities to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, as she and her refugee clients have had to do. Frustrated by their mother's financial indifference to their troubles, Ollie and Nettie long ago learned to turn to their soft-hearted father, Tom. Yet as Hepworth (The Family Next Door, 2018, etc.) shifts perspectives, chapter to chapter, we discover that Diana's emotional reserve is actually secretiveness and uncertainty grounded in her own traumatic experiences. Her every attempt to show she cares is fraught with second-guessing how others might misconstrue her meaning. And it is this careful shifting of perspectives and time periods that exposes the sense of loss haunting the family, keeping the reader questioning who might have murdered Diana. Was it Lucy who finally snapped after Diana snubbed her one too many times? Or maybe Ollie, whose shady business partner may have pushed him into a desperate financial spot? Or perhaps Nettie and Patrick cannot wait for Diana's estate. But why was the suicide note left in a drawer?A mesmerizing domestic mystery.

          COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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          Starred review from February 1, 2019
          Hepworth (The Family Next Door, 2018) turns up the tension in her latest Australian-set domestic-suspense novel. Lucy's ties with her husband's mother, Diana, have always been fraught with tension, especially disappointing because Lucy had delighted at the prospect of a mother figure in her life after her own passed away. Lucy and Diana were never on the same page, and so it's with mixed feelings that Lucy receives the news of Diana's sudden death. Determining the circumstances to be suspicious, police question Lucy, her husband, and her husband's sister and brother-in-law, unraveling secrets Diana had held close. Hepworth entwines the stories of two complicated women, from both of their perspectives, past and present, who desperately needed each other but were unable to say or do the right thing. Diana's personality always suggested a cold, distant woman more interested in her charities than her family, but though everyone seems to have a reason to want Diana dead, Lucy realizes she never really knew her mother-in-law at all. A masterful depiction of how much is said in the silences, accompanied by increasing unease over what happened to Diana, makes this a winner for fans of Liane Moriarty and Megan Abbott.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)

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          March 1, 2019

          Lucy's mother-in-law, Diana, is perfectly poised, perfectly polite, perfectly successful in work and marriage, and clearly doesn't like Lucy, Lucy's best efforts notwithstanding. Then Diana is found dead, with a suicide note saying she cannot face the cancer an autopsy reveals she doesn't have. What's going on, and what about that drastically altered will shortly before her death? Australian author Hepworth has done well here since 2015's The Secret of Midwives; 2018's The Family Next Door was called "not to be missed" by LJ.

          Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • "Deliciously entertaining!" —People Magazine's "People Pick"
  • Entertainment Weekly's "MUST List"
  • O Magazine's "15 Best Beach Books of the Year So Far"
  • Bustle "Best Book of April"
  • Refinery29 "Best Book of April"
  • Cosmopolitan "Best Book of April"
  • Woman's Day's "27 Fiction Books of 2019 to Add to Your Reading List ASAP"
  • BookBub's "Biggest Books of April"
  • PopSugar's "30 Must-Read Books of 2019"

    A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that 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...
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