{"id":2002,"date":"2025-02-17T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2025-02-17T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T06:05:00","slug":"the-younger-wife-by-sally-hepworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Younger Wife<\/strong> by Sally Hepworth<\/a>
on April 5, 2022
Genres:<\/strong> Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Domestic<\/a>, Fiction \/ Women<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 352
Format:<\/strong> Audiobook<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny how desperately the brain will seek an answer if it doesn\u2019t have one. Not knowing is not a restful state.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Tully and Rachel are murderous when they discover their father has a new girlfriend. The fact that Heather is half his age isn\u2019t even the most shocking part. Stephen is still married to their mother, who is in a care facility with end-stage Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Heather knows she has an uphill battle to win Tully and Rachel over, particularly while carrying the shameful secrets of her past. But, as it turns out, her soon-to-be stepdaughters have secrets of their own. The announcement of Stephen and Heather\u2019s 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\u2019s only the beginning\u2026<\/p>\n

Sally Hepworth is the queen with writing about dysfunctional families and this one is no different. I just can\u2019t get enough of dysfunctional family dramas, and this was a fun and intriguing one. I enjoyed getting to know the characters and thought Hepworth crafted some fascinating ones. Their personalities and secrets are unique and compelling, drawing me in from pretty much the first page. Along with the short chapters and the teasers about what really happened at the wedding, and I was turning the pages as fast as I could.<\/p>\n

I rated this novel 3.5 stars. The story had me captivated and I really looked forward to knowing what was going on. But in the end, I felt like I had entered a crazy house of mirrors and I\u2019m supposed to pick out the truth myself? I\u2019m not good at such open, pick your own truth kind of non resolutions and that\u2019s where I ended up being disappointed in the story. It\u2019s fun to wonder and guess and suspect but I don\u2019t consider if fun to never find out if my suspicions are correct. Still the journey to get to the end of the story was very engrossing, I just wish I knew where I was at the end.<\/p>\n

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