The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

What is your favorite sister relationship portrayed in a book?  My old-time favorite was the sisters in Little Women.  Recently it was the sisters in The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth.  I love sister stories so I was excited for False Witness by Karin Slaughter.  I’ve read a few of her books but this one felt different.  I loved Leigh and Callie with their complicated sister relationship.  Callie is a drug addict employed part-time at a vet surgery.  She works there so she can get drugs.  Leigh is a criminal defense attorney.  While Leigh’s work is inundated with face masks or hand sanitizer, it’s as if they don’t exist in Callie’s.  Yet Callie is still suffering the after-effects of The virus.  There’s a constant internal dialogue going on because their past has come back to haunt them.  Callie was brutally raped and beaten by a monster named Buddy.  The times the scene is repeated in the book feels like hundreds.  Buddy’s son, Andrew, is now on trial for rape and has “asked” Leigh to represent him.  More if the sisters’ past comes up when Callie goes back to their mother’s house.  Their mother, Phil, is a horrible person, especially to Callie.  Both sisters have a good a make in their life that are great juxtapositions to Buddy and Andrew.  Leigh’s husband Walter is wonderful. Callie’s employer Dr. Jerry is funny and amazing.  There were several things I didn’t like such as the graphic rape repeated over and over, an odd sex scene, and the  Kurt Cobain references.  The ending did have poetic justice. There weren’t a lot of twists in the book as you could see most really early in the book.