She wrote seven books, most notably The Secrets of Midwives, a novel published in 2015, and The Good Sister, which won the 2021 Adult crime novel Davitt Award.
[1][2] Hepworth and her works have been featured in media outlets that have included USA Today, The New York Times, and The Sydney Morning Herald.
[7][8][9] Hepworth has continued to release a novel every year, including The Things We Keep in 2016,[10] The Mother's Promise in 2017[11] and The Family Next Door in 2018.
[12] The Family Next Door was Hepworth's first novel set in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia, a trend she has continued in her 2019 novel The Mother-in-Law.
[13] Hepworth resides in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children, Oscar, Eloise and Clementine Rose.