The Mother-In-Law
by Sally Hepworth
2019
340 pages
St. Martin’s Press
New York, NY
10010
ISBN 978-1250120922 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1250225177 (International)
ISBN 978-1250120946 (ebook)
In this the sixth novel, author Sally Hepworth reveals her masterful skill of the layered storytelling she is astoundingly good at.
In this novel, she has turned up the heat by entangling the depths of her characters with heart-tugging familial relationships.
While I won’t report spoilers here in my review, the tense family encounters will keep you not only on the edge of your seat, you as a reader, will continue to guess and wonder who or who could not commit a crime.
The push and pull between family members, especially the female ones, will take the reader into their own family and reflect quickly on their own dynamics and relationships.
There is death, inheritance, and struggle. Hepworth will have you turning the pages as the characters that she builds begin to take on similarities to those we may have known, or are currently in your own family. We begin to care for them.
We know too, that this family is hiding something, and the continual weaving by Hepworth is stellar.
This is a 5 star ***** read.
This book was chosen by the book club I belong to called the Book Babes. This book was also borrowed from my local network of libraries.
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