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★★★★☆ 3.99 • Goodreads

Loved Local Woman Missing for its fractured timelines and buried secrets? Sally Hepworth's Darling Girls turns foster care into a minefield of maternal deception.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Foster care secrets explode w/ maternal gaslighting
  • Three sisters, three POVs, one buried truth
  • Psychological warfare disguised as family bonds
  • Domestic dread that validates your trust issues

If Local Woman Missing kept you reading past midnight, frantically turning pages as suburban facades crumbled, Darling Girls delivers that same breathless velocity—layering secrets through shifting timelines and unreliable voices until you question everything you thought you knew about family, trust, and the women who hold both together.

Sally Hepworth understands that the most terrifying betrayals happen at the kitchen table.

Here, the idyllic childhood home becomes the crime scene, and three foster sisters must excavate the rage and grief they've buried for decades. Maternal instincts twist into something darker, more human.

Sally Hepworth understands that the most terrifying betrayals happen at the kitchen table.

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What Readers Are Saying

"a gripping, suspenseful tale that will keep you guessing to the end!" Kaceey, Goodreads
"It’s so refreshing to see female friendship portrayed in a positive, supportive way." Kat, Goodreads
"Another hard to put down book...gripping, well written, shocking..." Debra, Goodreads

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