Summary of Sally Hepworth's Mad Mabel

Get the Summary of Sally Hepworth's Mad Mabel in 20 minutes. Mad Mabel (2025) by bestselling novelist Sally Hepworth follows a woman who refuses to be defined by her past. Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick, an 81-year-old with a sharp tongue, lives quietly in suburban Melbourne until a neighbor dies and attention turns to her. Decades earlier, she was notorious as “Mad Mabel,” Australia’s youngest convicted murderer. As police investigate and the media circles, Elsie forms an unlikely bond with a 7-year-old neighbor, Persephone, whose affection nudges her toward confronting the past. Slowly, Elsie begins to reveal what really happened—and who she truly is...