The younger wife

Sally Hepworth

Book - 2022

"Sally Hepworth, the newest breakout star of domestic suspense delivers her next twisty novel about family secrets and lies in The Younger Wife. Stephen Aston is getting married again. The only problem is, he's still married to his first wife, even though she is in a care facility for dementia. But he'll take care of that easily, by divorcing her--even if his adult daughters protest. Tully and Rachel Aston look upon Heather as nothing but an interloper. Heather is the same age as Rachel and even younger than Tully. Clearly she's a golddigger and after their father's money. Heather has secrets that she's keeping close, and reasons of her own for wanting to marry Stephen. With their mother unable to speak for her...self, Tully and Rachel are determined to get to the truth about their family's secrets, the new wife closing in, and who their father really is. But will getting to the truth unleash the most dangerous impulses...in all of them?"--

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Subjects
Genres
Suspense fiction
Domestic fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press 2022.
Language
English
Main Author
Sally Hepworth (author)
Edition
First St. Martin's Press Edition
Item Description
"First published in 2021 in Australia by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd"--Title page verso.
Physical Description
346 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN
9781250229618
9781250283184
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Review by Booklist Review

Pamela Aston isn't locked in the attic like Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre, but she has been confined in a care facility for dementia. Her husband, Stephen, divorces her to marry a woman younger than one of his daughters. Tully, his older daughter, is extremely neurotic and a kleptomaniac, and the younger one, Rachel, literally feeds her self-destructiveness with her fancy cake business. The bride-to-be, Heather, is a self-made woman, clearly trying too hard to disguise her unfortunate background. Her father is in prison for strangling her mother. Is that why her hands are always shaking? Everyone in this story is impulsively dangerous to themselves and everyone around them, Stephen included, and they are sitting on a powder keg of toxic secrets. A warped tale, moving back and forward in time, full of "what is really happening here?" moments, Hepworth's seventh offering (after The Good Sister, 2021) is perfect for fans of her fellow Australian writers, as it boasts Jane Harper's multilayered characters and Liane Moriarty's wealthy suburban world saturated with lies and deceit.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: With each domestic thriller, best-selling Hepworth shines brighter and draws in more readers.

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In this appealing domestic suspense novel from bestseller Hepworth (The Good Sister), Pamela Aston's two adult daughters, Tully and Rachel, are already reeling at the swiftness of the Melbourne, Australia, homemaker's deterioration with early-onset Alzheimer's when their cardiac surgeon father, Stephen, blindsides them with another bombshell--his plan to divorce Pam, who's soon moved to a nursing home, and marry interior designer Heather Wisher, who's younger than either sister. Further shocks await Rachel, a gorgeous plus-size baker who by her own account eats her feelings, as well as Tully, the always anxious mother of two little boys, as they try to figure out how seriously to take Pam's occasional utterances suggesting that life with Stephen may have had a darker side. Meanwhile, the surprisingly sympathetic Heather starts to question her wedding plans--and possibly her sanity--now that she's living with Stephen full-time. The toxic secrets each woman has been hiding, a surprise romance, and the small fortune Rachel discovers in her mother's hot water bottle nicely complicate the fast-moving plot. This often funny and affecting outing should win Hepworth new fans. Agent: Rob Weisbach, Rob Weisbach Creative Management. (Apr.)

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