The Highland Park Literary Festival (HP LitFest) is thrilled to announce Sally Hepworth, New York Times bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law, The Good Sister, and her latest novel, Mad Mabel, will be the featured speaker of this year’s community keynote event on March 4, 2027, in the Highland Park High School Auditorium. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., and the program will begin at 7 p.m. Admission is free. The HP LitFest Committee would like to thank La Fiesta de las Seis Banderas for sponsoring the 2027 HP LitFest community keynote event and for generously supporting its mission for the past 26 years, enabling the organization to achieve prominence as a community literary festival.

Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including Mad Mabel, Darling Girls, The Soulmate, The Younger Wife, The Good Sister, The Mother-in-Law, and The Family Next Door. Known for twisty domestic suspense built on complex family relationships, her novels have been praised by bestselling authors Harlan Coben, who calls her work “funny, twisty and suspenseful,” and Liane Moriarty, who says, “Sally Hepworth writes compelling, compassionate novels with characters you come to know and love.” Hepworth’s books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 30 languages. She  lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her family.

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