Sally Hepworth
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.
From Hepworth's Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: How did you come up with the idea for The Mother-in-Law, and for your characters Lucy and Diana?--Marshal Zeringue
A: The idea came to me while hosting my in-laws, who stayed with us for six weeks following the birth of my third child.
On this particular trip, my (beloved) father-in-law had been pestering me continually about what my next book was about. Now, I didn’t know what my next book was going to be about, given the fact that I had just given birth! But he wouldn’t let it go.
Finally I told him, in jest: “I’m going to write about a woman who murders her father-in-law.” We laughed about it, but the more I thought about it, I decided it wasn’t a bad idea.
Still, I thought it would be an even better idea if I substituted Mother-in-Law for Father-in-Law. My father-in-law was bummed, because he was looking forward to his 15 minutes of fame, but...[read on]
