Kate’s 2¢: “The Mother-in-Law” by Sally Hepworth

“The Mother-in-Law” by Sally Hepworth

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Mis-communications between Diane and Lucy. Lucy realized she had to prove herself to Diana even though Diana seemed to be a very cold person.

   Personally, the only issue I had wiwth my mother-in-law when I was just a bride, was that when I told my Mother something in private, she might haave shared it with my Father, but, that was as far as it went. When I shared something with my new Mother-in-Law, I soon found it travelled around to her two sisters, who shared it with their spouses and children. I quickly learned not to share!

   Comments like: adding vegetables into the spaghetti sauce so the children would eat it, rang true with me.

   Australian phrases like fly screen door, crocodile tongs, and paddle pops brought authenticity to the story.   

   I don’t agree with hiding adoption information from children, because that denies them access to  medical information.

   Ollie and Nettie were getting mixed messages due to their gender and the false expectation to inherit. Ollie and lucy ended up where they were supposed to be; although, Netty was driven mad.

   Barrie Kreinik  did a good job of reading this story. The interview with the author discussed why Heyworth wrote “The Mother-in-Law”.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Website: sallyhepworthauthor.com

Hepworth resides in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children, Oscar, Eloise and Clementine Rose.[4]

Born 1980; Sally Hepworth is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of five books, most notably The Secrets of Midwives, a novel she published in 2015.[1] Hepworth and her works have been featured in media outlets that have included USA Today, The New York Times, and The Sydney Morning Herald.[2][3][4]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The mother-in-law DB94881

Hepworth, Sally. Reading time: 9 hours, 13 minutes.

Read by Barrie Kreinik. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

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When Lucy met her husband’s mother five years ago, she knew she wasn’t the wife Diana had envisioned for her perfect son. Now Diana is dead, with a suicide note claiming she had cancer. The autopsy finds no cancer–but it does find evidence of poison and suffocation. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.