Ben Apfelbaum

SALLY HEPWORTH : DARLING GIRLS

Sally Hepworth is a New York Times best selling author of nine novels. Drawing on the good, the bad and the outright odd of human behaviour., Sally writes incisively about family, relationships and identity. Her domestic thriller novels are sprinkled with quirky humour and a darky charming tone.

Her latest novel is no different.

For as long as they can remember Jessica, Norah and Alicia have been told how lucky they are to be rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother on an idyllic farm.

But their childhood wasn’t the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. When a body is discovered under the home that they gre uo in, the fosrer sisters find themselves thrust in to the spotlight as key witnesses. Or are they prime suspects?

A thriliing page turner it deals with sisterhood, secrets, love and murder.

Sally Hepworth’s ‘Darling Girls’ is available now and has been published by Pan MacMillan Australia.

Text and photos by Ban Apfelbaum

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.