Best Sally Hepworth Audiobooks

The best Sally Hepworth audiobooks — 6 titles ranked by listening experience across Mystery, Literature & Fiction, Thriller, averaging 4.04 ABR stars.

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Sally Hepworth has carved out a precise lane in domestic suspense: Australian family life where the warmth on the surface barely conceals the rot underneath. Her novels — The Mother-in-Law, The Good Sister, The Soulmate — follow women navigating fraught family dynamics with secrets layered so deliberately that the reveal lands like a door slamming shut. Hepworth writes in close, intimate third-person shifts between characters, letting you inhabit each perspective just long enough to believe them before the ground shifts. Her prose is clean and domestic in the best sense — cozy enough to lull you, precise enough to unsettle. She's not a gore-and-grit thriller writer; she's a psychological one, more interested in what people hide from the people they love than in any external threat. Readers who loved Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies or Lisa Jewell's domestic suspense will feel immediately at home.

Sally Hepworth's highest-rated audiobook in our collection is The Mother-in-Law, narrated by Barrie Kreinik (4.18 ABR stars). Performed by narrators including Barrie Kreinik, Thérèse Plummer, Barrie Kreinik, Barrie Kreinik, Caroline Lee, Jessica Douglas-Henry, and more. Rankings here weight the listening experience — narrator performance and Audible ratings factor alongside reader scores.

Where to Start with Sally Hepworth

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    The Mother-in-Law

    by Sally Hepworth

    Narrated by Barrie Kreinik

    4.18 ABR Score (208.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (204.9K) ★ 4.42 Audible (3.3K)
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    Lucy's desperate attempts to win over her husband's perfect mother Diana end in death—but was it suicide, accident, or something more calculated?

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    The Things We Keep

    by Sally Hepworth

    Narrated by Thérèse Plummer, Barrie Kreinik

    4.09 ABR Score (37.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.94 Goodreads (36.6K) ★ 4.44 Audible (1.0K)
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    Thirty-eight-year-old Anna faces early-onset Alzheimer's at an assisted living facility where she finds unexpected love and friendship despite her family's good intentions.

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    The Family Next Door

    by Sally Hepworth

    Narrated by Barrie Kreinik

    4.04 ABR Score (79.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.82 Goodreads (78.4K) ★ 4.23 Audible (1.2K)
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    Perfect suburbs hide dangerous secrets when childless Isabelle moves to Pleasant Court and uncovers what her family-obsessed neighbors are really hiding.

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    The Mother's Promise

    by Sally Hepworth

    Narrated by Barrie Kreinik

    4.16 ABR Score (27.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (27.3K) ★ 4.51 Audible (465)
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    A dying single mother must find someone to care for her troubled teenage daughter, leading to an unlikely bond between two families facing their own crises. Barrie Kreinik's sensitive narration captures both the heartbreak and hope in this emotional journey.

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    The Younger Wife

    by Sally Hepworth

    Narrated by Barrie Kreinik, Caroline Lee, Jessica Douglas-Henry

    3.90 ABR Score (121.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (121.8K) ★ 4.8 Audible (5)
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    Heart surgeon Stephen Aston wants to divorce his wife who can no longer speak for herself, planning to marry someone younger than his own daughters. Three narrators—Barrie Kreinik, Caroline Lee, and Jessica Douglas-Henry—capture each woman's perspective in this family thriller.

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    The Soulmate

    by Sally Hepworth

    Narrated by Barrie Kreinik, Jessica Douglas-Henry

    3.88 ABR Score (188.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (188.7K) ★ 4.67 Audible (3)
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    A woman discovers her husband has been talking people down from a cliff behind their dream home—until one jumps anyway. Dual narrators Barrie Kreinik and Jessica Douglas-Henry perfectly capture the shifting perspectives and mounting dread.

How We Rank Audiobooks

Rankings are driven by listener ratings and review counts from Audible and Goodreads. Books with high ratings across a large number of listeners rank higher — a 4.5 with 50,000 ratings says more than a 4.8 with 200.

Unlike most book lists, we weight audiobook-specific factors: narrator performance, production quality, and how well a story translates to audio. A great book with a poor narration isn't a great audiobook.

We don't accept paid placements or prioritize new releases. These rankings reflect what listeners actually enjoy, not what's being promoted.

Rankings update periodically as new ratings come in and new titles are added to the collection.

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