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The moment she laid eyes on Heather Wisher, Tully knew this woman was going to destroy their lives.

Tully and Rachel are murderous when they discover their father has a new girlfriend. The fact that Heather is half his age isn't even the most shocking part. Stephen is still married to their mother, who is in a care facility with end-stage Alzheimer's disease.

Heather knows she has an uphill battle to win Tully and Rachel over, while carrying the burden of the secrets of her past. But, as it turns out, they are all hiding something.

The announcement of Stephen and Heather's engagement threatens to set off a family implosion, with old wounds and dark secrets finally being forced to the surface.

A garage full of stolen goods. An old hot-water bottle, stuffed with cash. A blood-soaked wedding. And that's only the beginning . . .

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK DESIGN AWARDS 2022 BEST DESIGNED COMMERCIAL FICTION COVER

Praise for The Younger Wife

'Smart, suspenseful, brimming with secrets. This is Sally Hepworth at her unputdownable best.' - Kate Morton

'At once familiar, wonderfully unpredictable and riveting. My kind of story.' - Rosalie Ham

'Completely compulsive. Sally Hepworth delivers with this stay-up-late one-more-chapter gem.' - Jane Harper

'Totally absorbing, brilliantly written and thoroughly enjoyable. An addictive, unputdownable read.' - Herald Sun

'Thrilling family drama' - Who Weekly

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333 pages
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Macmillan Australia
Publication date

26 October 2021
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister and The Mother-in-Law, comes a new story of family drama and long-buried secrets. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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Praise for The Younger Wife:
'Smart, suspenseful, brimming with secrets. This is Sally Hepworth at her unputdownable best.' - Kate Morton

'Completely compulsive. Sally Hepworth delivers with this stay-up-late one-more-chapter gem.' - Jane Harper

Praise for The Good Sister:

Hepworth's latest further solidifies her place among the top domestic suspense authors...Fern is drawn as smart, capable, and probably on the spectrum, and she is multilayered and relatable, illustrating Hepworth's talent for page-turners with depth.-- Booklist

It's a warped tale of twisted memories and skewed perceptions that will make fans of psychological thrillers say, 'Wow, I didn't see that coming.'--Library Journal

Punchy prose helps propel the twisty plot to a creepy but satisfying conclusion. For fans of domestic dramas, this is a treat.--Publishers Weekly

"Fans of Hepworth's The Mother-in-Law will quickly be drawn into this family-based mystery surrounding twin sisters Fern and Rose."--CNN.com

"Hepworth proficiently spins a web that slyly keeps pulling in readers until they realize they're caught up in it and can't escape...When a woman helps her twin sister have a baby, she unintentionally causes buried family secrets to resurface in this unsettling yet heartwarming psychological drama. --Shelf Awareness

"Sally Hepworth's The Good Sister achieves the impossible trio of creepy, tender, and funny....Hepworth is an author poised to break out.--Business Insider

"[A] compelling, assured psychological twister...The book has a wicked sting of an ending, giving its title a dark second meaning. But where The Good Sister really shines is in its convincing, fascinating portrait of Fern's sensory-processing disorder -- both its blessings and its curses."--Seattle Times

--This text refers to the library edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B098NJKMS6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Macmillan Australia (26 October 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1296 KB
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Sally Hepworth is the bestselling author of The Secrets of Midwives (2015), The Things We Keep (2016) The Mother's Promise (2017), The Family Next Door (2018), The Mother In Law (April 2019), The Good Sister (April 2021) and The Younger Wife (April 2022). Hollywood actress and producer, Amy Poehler, has optioned The Mother In Law for a TV series.

Sally's books have been labelled “enchanting” by The Herald Sun, “smart and engaging” by Publisher’s Weekly, and New York Times bestselling authors Liane Moriarty and Emily Giffin have praised Sally’s novels as “women’s fiction at its finest” and “totally absorbing”. Sally's novels are available worldwide in English and have been translated into 10+ languages.

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

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Entertaining

Reviewed in Australia on 3 November 2021

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Still not sure how much suspension of disbelief is necessary here. Is it possible that a successful doctor can be a serial abuser yet so successful a gaslighter that the women involved (daughters and wives) are unaware of it? Whatever. The plot romps on at a mile a minute as these quirky and dysfunctional characters slide over the waterfall of death only to find themselves saner and wiser in the refreshing plunge pool of life. There’s kleptomania, eating and baking your way past teenage rape, pension fraud, toddlers refusing to eat with hands, a barrister mis-investing $2m with dire results, psychologists, a murderous dad in prison, Alzheimer’s etc. What’s not to like? I highlighted a couple of wise remarks about the role of fathers in a child’s life.

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Linda Raiti @lilyraiti

Fast paced, gripping family drama!

Reviewed in Australia on 12 May 2022

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This little beauty was our book club pick this month.
Comments about The Younger Wife from some of the team …

* I loved it!
* Can’t wait to read more books by Sally Hepworth.
* First book I have actually finished BEFORE our monthly catch up!
* It was an enjoyable read and the characters well developed. Each having their own secrets. I liked that the new stepmother didn’t have the typical stereotype. The ending left me dangling though.
* I really enjoyed all the characters and the different relationships.
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And then this last comment …

* So you want us to do your review for you? 🤣
There’s always one!! 😂😂😂

My review:

In true Hepworth style, she’s knocked it out of the park again with The Younger Wife. It’s more of a slow burn domestic thriller that begs you to keep turning the pages to unravel an intriguing and fascinating plot!

We follow a stunning, complex and flawed cast of characters, highlighting this dysfunctional family with so many secrets! This domestic family drama centres around the patriarch who is getting married to a much younger woman and who’s ex wife is in the throws of late stage dementia and very much in the picture.

The POV’s beautifully meander around his two daughters Tully and Rachel and his soon to be new wife Heather. Cleverly plotted we follow their own personal demons and dramas as well as family dynamics, uncovering secrets as the plot thickens.

It’s fast paced and engaging and hits some hard core issues - gaslighting, infidelity, kleptomania, alcoholism, domestic violence.

A fabulous read and another I can highly recommend! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you @sallyhepworth

Reviewed in Australia on 27 November 2021

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Sally Hepworth writes brilliant family drama and The Younger Wife is no exception. Her characters are beautifully developed and I was left wanting to know more. Where are they now and how are they going? While dealing with difficult subject matter, there was love and humour and warmth. Thoroughly recommend x

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Liz

Very readable

Reviewed in Australia on 26 November 2021

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I enjoyed this book on the whole and will check out her other books.

Reviewed in Australia on 17 February 2022

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Love this author. Easy read with interesting characters. Highly engaging. Definitely recommend

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Zoe Gomez

Takes a bit to get into

Reviewed in Australia on 4 June 2022

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You know a book is good when you stay up to 1:30 am to finish as you must know how it ends

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Sarah Stevens

addictive page turner

Reviewed in Australia on 14 January 2022

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By the time I got a quarter of the way through I couldn’t put it down. A real page turner.

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A breezy writing style, a good number of twists and interesting characters

Reviewed in Australia on 27 October 2021

Gossips, busybodies and scandalmongers ... gather ’round! Have you heard what’s going on with the Astons? Not only is patriarch Stephen Aston engaged to marry a woman who is younger than his daughters, but the rest of the family seem to be falling apart at the seams as well!

It is in this somewhat light-hearted vein that I took a drink and my copy of THE YOUNGER WIFE and sat outside in the wonderful sunshine (at least in my neighbourhood) to read from cover to cover this highly entertaining story.

It was a pleasure to read this book. Reading about each character’s idiosyncrasies and their reactions as personal and family secrets are revealed kept me engaged from start to finish. The chapters, told from various characters’ points of view, allowed us to gain insight into things that happen and also see how they might look differently to others.

This book does tackle serious issues including domestic violence, sexual assault, food addiction and, dementia just to name a few. If I had picked this book up on a day I was in a more serious frame of mind, I might have struggled with the way in which some of these issues were handled. Having said that, I think the book well encapsulates the helplessness and loss of control by characters; I was easily able to empathise with them.

Hepworth’s breezy writing style, a good number of twists and interesting characters makes THE YOUNGER WIFE a diverting read.

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Absolutely brilliant book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2022

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Sally Hepworth is an excellent writer, and has skilfully woven an absorbing tale here. The main characters are Stephen, a well respected doctor. Pamela, his very recent ex wife who has advanced dementia. Their adult daughters, Rachel and Tully. And Heather, the new wife to be, who is as young as the daughters. Every character is well written, but my favourite is Rachel, who uses cooking and eating to hide her past trauma. The story starts on Stephen and Heather’s wedding day, then flashes back over the past from various points of view. I loved reading it, it kept me guessing right till the end.

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vanillalatte

We all have our problems but what happens when they go too far?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 April 2022

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Brilliant book and character study. Read it in a day and couldn’t put it down. It’s not made up from perfect people, but shows how they can be redeemed... unless they go too far....

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The younger wife.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2022

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An interesting plot with Stephen seeming to be a very strong and almost perfect specimen. This image was maintained most of the way through but gradually the unpleasant reality was revealed.

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chrissythebookworm

A really great book.. would highly recommend reading it..

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2022

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I liked this book alot.. it kept me guessing the whole way through the book.. it is very well written

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