BOTM Monday: Darling Girls

 

Author: Sally Hepworth
Title: Darling Girls
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 04/232024

Read Dates: 04/24/2024/- 04/25/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

This was my Book of the Month club pick for April. 

Darling Girls is a multi-POV thriller that mainly centers around three women, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia, who all lived in the same foster home for a few years as children. They were lucky to have a beautiful home and loving foster mother… at least that’s what they were told. As adults, the women have to confront their pasts after a body is found buried beneath the home.

Like most thrillers I’ve read this past year, this one had short chapters that made it easy to fly through. I found myself thoroughly caught up in the story and unsure what was going to happen next. I wasn’t completely satisfied with the ending but I loved the twists and turns to get there.

For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance at a happy family life.

But their childhood wasn’t the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. Miss Fairchild had rules. Miss Fairchild could be unpredictable. And Miss Fairchild was never, ever to be crossed. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild and thought they were free. Even though they never saw her again, she was always somewhere in the shadows of their minds. When a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses. Or are they prime suspects?

A thrilling page-turner of sisterhood, secrets, love, and murder by New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth.