Mad Mabel
Sally Hepworth, 2025
A voice that would do anything for one friend, a world of bullies and victims, and a kindness that turns out to be the most dangerous thing in it.
Sally Hepworth
Hepworth is a Melbourne-based Australian novelist whose domestic suspense titles, including The Good Sister and The Soulmate, have appeared on bestseller lists on both sides of the Pacific.
Feels like friendship, tenderness and dread.
There is a love that outranks romance, and almost nobody admits it.
There will be those who disagree with me, of course. People who say romantic love trumps platonic female friendship. Or parental love. Or love of self. Those people are just giving away the fact that they’ve never experienced true platonic female friendship. The kind of friendship you’d do anything to preserve—fight, steal. Even kill. Here’s a little-spoken fact for you: Friends are like oxygen. If you’ve been blessed enough to have always been surrounded by friends, you might think I’m overplaying this. I don’t blame you. If you’d always been surrounded by air, you wouldn’t think to credit it for your very existence either. But I’ve spent much of my life gasping for breath, so I promise you, it’s true. Friends are like oxygen. And the only reason I’m still alive is Daphne. Books by Sally Hepworth
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