Turning Pages Together Book Group: The Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth

We will discuss The Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth. Registration is preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. Copies of the book can be checked out at the Service Center a month prior to the discussion.

The Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth

From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond goes back decades, to when they were girls and they lived on a farm with a foster mother named Miss Fairchild. Miss Fairchild had rules, could be unpredictable, and she was never, ever to be crossed. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild and they thought they were free. But the reach of someone with such power is long, and even though they never saw her again, she was always somewhere in the shadows of their minds. When bones are discovered buried under the farmhouse of their childhood, they are called in by the police to tell what they know. Against their will, they are brought back to the past, and to Miss Fairchild herself. The Darling Girls asks the questions: what are we capable of when in a desperate place? How much can we hide the demons inside us? And can the past ever truly be buried?