Helpful Score: 2
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth is a quick read that kept me engaged throughout, and I enjoyed the audiobook narrated by Jessica Clarke.
Content warning: girls experience childhood trauma in the foster care system.
Set in Australia (of course), this is told in dual time (Then and Now) with rotating points of view. Jessica, Norah, and Alicia bonded as "sisters" when each was placed into foster care with Miss Fairchild at Wild Meadows farm. Twenty-five years later, a tragic discovery is made at the farm, and local law enforcement requires the women to return for questioning. As the investigation moved forward, long-held secrets are revealed.
It was interesting to meet the women as adults and learn how their relationships developed in childhood. I wonder if the author was in a dark place in life as she wrote this because all of the characters seemed more 'troubled' than in her previous novels I've enjoyed.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio, St. Martin's Press, and NetGalley for the review copies of this novel.
Content warning: girls experience childhood trauma in the foster care system.
Set in Australia (of course), this is told in dual time (Then and Now) with rotating points of view. Jessica, Norah, and Alicia bonded as "sisters" when each was placed into foster care with Miss Fairchild at Wild Meadows farm. Twenty-five years later, a tragic discovery is made at the farm, and local law enforcement requires the women to return for questioning. As the investigation moved forward, long-held secrets are revealed.
It was interesting to meet the women as adults and learn how their relationships developed in childhood. I wonder if the author was in a dark place in life as she wrote this because all of the characters seemed more 'troubled' than in her previous novels I've enjoyed.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio, St. Martin's Press, and NetGalley for the review copies of this novel.
Helpful Score: 1
Jessica, Norah & Alicia have grown up under the care of Miss Fairchild at Wild Meadows farm. It is a foster facility. While there, they formed a bond more durable than actual sisters. Miss Fairchild had all kinds of rules, some unpredictable. There were others brought in for short periods of time.
The girls grow up with some horrendous problems, mostly caused by Miss Fairchild.
They are now grown and have been contacted by the police that there is an investigation going on about a body found under the remains of the house they grew up in. They are then having to go back and be reminded of everything that they went through as children.
This was a good book, but there were quite a few grammatical errors that should have been amended before publication. Little confusion with the psychiatrist and who was being treated.
The girls grow up with some horrendous problems, mostly caused by Miss Fairchild.
They are now grown and have been contacted by the police that there is an investigation going on about a body found under the remains of the house they grew up in. They are then having to go back and be reminded of everything that they went through as children.
This was a good book, but there were quite a few grammatical errors that should have been amended before publication. Little confusion with the psychiatrist and who was being treated.
