Sally Hepworth is the bestselling author of The Secrets of Midwives, The Things We Keep, The Mother's Promise, and The Family Next Door.Her new novel is The Mother-in-Law.
At CrimeReads Hepworth tagged eight fictional families that will make you feel better about your own dysfunctional family, including:
Baby Teeth, by Zoje StageRead about another entry on the list.
In this creepy thriller, Zoje Stage pits a mute, seven-year-old bad seed (Hanna), against her physically and emotionally vulnerable stay-at-homemom (Suzette). Hanna is a girl who barks at her teachers, feeds a schoolmate paint, antagonizes her babysitters, and…contemplates how to best murder her mother. And there’s another problem: Hanna is a perfect angel in the presence of her father, and Suzette’s struggling to make him believe they have a very disturbed daughter on their hands. Oh, and reader beware: There’s one scene that will induce an unshakable fear of thumbtacks.
--Marshal Zeringue
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