Sally Hepworth
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Sally Hepworth | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Notable work | The Secrets of Midwives Darling Girls |
| Website | sallyhepworthauthor |
Sally Hepworth is an Australian writer. She is best known for her novel The Secrets of Midwives, published in 2015.[1] Her book The Good Sister won the 2021 Davitt Award in the Adult Novel category.[2]
Sally Hepworth grew up in Melbourne, Australia.[3] Hepworth worked in both event management and human resources prior to becoming a writer.[4]
Career
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 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][6] Her research for the book came from her own questions to midwives during check-ups, as well as reading fiction and nonfiction books on the subject.[4] KJ Dell'Antonia of The New York Times called it a "fast and fun read."[7] It received middling to positive reviews in Publishers Weekly, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Kirkus Reviews.[8][9][10]
Hepworth released 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.[14]
In 2024, she released Darling Girls, which won a Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel.[15]
Adaptations
The Family Next Door was made into a TV series of the same name, with scripts by Sarah Scheller, Pip Karmel, Julia Moriarty, and Andrew Anastasios. The series, directed by Emma Freeman, premiered on ABC Television in August 2025.[16]
