Sally Hepworth | |
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Occupation | Writer |
Notable work | The Secrets of Midwives |
Website | sallyhepworthauthor |
Sally Hepworth is an Australian writer. She is best known for her novels and The Secrets of Midwives , published in 2015, [1] and The Good Sister, which won the 2021 Adult Crime Novel Davitt Award. [2]
Hepworth worked in both event management and human resources prior to becoming a writer. [4]
While on maternity leave with her first child, Hepworth wrote Love Like the French, a novel about a British woman who goes to France after an accident leaves her husband in a coma. [5] The character goes to France to see what the French could teach her about living. [5] Hepworth was unable to finish the book immediately after her son Oscar was born, but the book was eventually published in Germany in 2014. [4]
In 2015, Hepworth released a second book, The Secrets of Midwives , that she wrote while pregnant with her second child. The novel is about three generations of midwives. [4] Her research for the book came from her own questioning of midwives during check-ups and reading fiction and nonfiction books on the subject. [4] KJ Dell'Antonia from The New York Times called it a "fast and fun read," with other reviews of the book coming by way of Publishers Weekly , The Sydney Morning Herald , and Kirkus Reviews. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Hepworth has continued to release a novel every year, including The Things We Keep in 2016, [11] The Mother's Promise in 2017 [12] and The Family Next Door in 2018. [13] The Family Next Door was Hepworth's first novel set in her hometown of Melbourne, a trend she continued in her 2019 novel The Mother-in-Law. [3]
The Family Next Door was made into a TV series of the same name, with the script written by screenwriter Sarah Scheller and co-written by Pip Karmel, Julia Moriarty, and Andrew Anastasios. The series, directed by Emma Freeman, premiered on ABC Television in August 2025. [14]
As of 2015 [update] Hepworth was living in Melbourne with her husband and three children. [4]
Publication year | Title | Original publisher | ISBN |
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2026 (Overseas) | Mad Mabel | St. Martin's Press | ISBN 9781250284549 |
2025 (Australia) | Mad Mabel | MacMillan Australia | ISBN 9781761266492 |
2024 | Darling Girls | St. Martin's Press | ISBN 9781250284525 |
2023 | The Soulmate | St. Martin's Press | ISBN 9781250229700 |
2022 | The Younger Wife | St. Martin's Press | ISBN 9781250229618 |
2020 | The Good Sister | St. Martin's Press | ISBN 9781760552190 |
2019 | The Mother-in-Law | St. Martin's Press | ISBN 9781760552183 |
2018 | The Family Next Door | St. Martin's Press | ISBN 9781250120892 |
2017 | The Mother's Promise | St. Martin's Press | ISBN 9781250077752 |
2016 | The Things We Keep | St. Martin's Press | ISBN 9781250051929 |
2015 | The Secrets of Midwives | St. Martin's Press | ISBN 9781250051899 |
2014 | Love Like the French | Random House Germany | ISBN 9783442382538 |