Hannah King

Seven weeks until baby #3 hits the shelves. The book I’m proudest of and most nervous for … Pre-orders massively help authors, so if you are interested in reading LITTLE DARLINGS, my book about the bond between sisters and the secrets that can lie hidden in a family, you can order from the link in my bio (or from wherever you get your books) … if you are able to support your local bookshop, all the better ⭐️📚 #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #supportlocal #currentlywriting #discoverni @bedfordsq.publishers @noexitpress @charlotteseymour_books

In all the excitement of Book 3, I almost forgot that Baby #2 is released in paperback next month! Available for pre-order wherever you get your books, £9.99 in most places, dinky enough to fit in your bag 😌 Buy one for yourself, buy one for your mama for Mother’s Day, for your mate because it’s a cute gift. #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #discoverni #paperback #novel #weekendreading #books #supportsmallbusiness #supportlocal #theblindspot @bedfordsq.publishers @noexitpress @charlotteseymour_books

The last four years of author life have flown by 🥹 I hope I have Savi around as my book promoter for a while to come, as nobody does it better than her (my dashy, while supportive, is not good at sitting obediently 🤣) It’s very easy to continually chase the next thing, but sometimes it’s nice to sit back and take stock of what’s come before. You pour a wee bit of your heart into every book you finish, and that’s not an easy thing. Two weeks until my third novel, LITTLE DARLINGS, is published! Available for preorder wherever you get your books. #authorlife #lucky #dog #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #supportlocal #currentlywriting #discoverni #books #authorlife #crimethriller #novel #review #arc

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the love for LITTLE DARLINGS in its first few weeks out in the world. Reader reviews make so much difference to us authors and we really appreciate them. Even just a rating or a quick ‘loved this one!’ can change everything for those of us trying to make a wee career. Thank you to everyone who has reviewed so far 🥹❤️ LD is available wherever you get your books ✨ #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #supportlocal #discoverni #books #currentlywriting #authorlife #bookreview #crimethriller

Never gets old yknow, seeing my children all together in a shop window 🥹 Working on book 4 today, and things like this definitely inspire me to keep going when it feels DIFFICULT 🙏 #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #supportlocal #currentlywriting #discoverni #books #authorlife #crimethriller #novel #review #writersofinstagram

Bump and I (lol) had the absolute pleasure of hosting six incredible authors last night at the Dromore Book Festival! So interesting to hear such different stories about the highs and lows of publishing life, and I saw lots of people taking notes so I don’t think I was the only person to come away feeling inspired! Thank you so much to @bridge_books_dromore and my captivating panellists, @_lauramclo , @jamieguineywriter , @cara_bbelle , @mcquillanbernie , @iamlisagorman and @maggiedoyle7378 ! #supportlocal #bookfestival #dromore #discoverni #authors #publishing #authorlife #panel

Thank you to Hannah King, Bedford Square Publishers, No Exit Press and Random Things Tours, for this complimentary advanced copy and having me on the tour its a pleasure. This review is being left voluntarily and all opinions are my own. This was such a deeply unsettling and difficult read. The story is told from the pov of Cara at two different times in her life. In the 'then' pov she is 9 years old and going through a tought time dealing with issues way beyond her years, while the 'now' pov sees her grown up with a family of her own and determined there will be no repeat of the past. As a child Cara and her sister Charlotte ended up in the care of their great aunt and uncle. From that moment on their lives would never be the same again. Years later and it is clear to see Cara has spent years trying to bury the hurt, the lies the secrets from all those years ago, but life has a habit of catching you up with you when you least expect it and she is forced to confront her past. It is a really slow burn story, heavy on the psychological with some awfully dark subjects explored. Reading Cara's 'then' chapters, I was uncomfortable, on edge and felt heartbroken for this young girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. Hannah King does a wonderful job of bringing Cara to life and putting real and raw emotion into the character. I look forward to reading more from this author in the future. 💥 Question 💥 ✨️ What’s your favourite kind of family drama in books: emotional, messy, or full of secrets? OR Do you enjoy stories that switch between childhood and adulthood perspectives? #bookstagram #bookrecs📚 #thrillerbooks #booktour #Littledarlings Book Recommendations • Thrillers • Thriller book recommendations • Psychological Thriller • domestic thriller • booktour • New authors • messy family dynamics • gaslighting • lies• secrets • New to me author • novels • book tour reviewer • book reviewer • bookish life • book life • Thriller • love books • Reading • Reviewing • Recommending • book chat • bookstagram • booksta bookstagramer • bookstagramuk • bookstagramus • No Exit Press Bedford Square Publishers • Random Things Tours • Hannah King

📕Book Review 📕 Little Darlings - Hannah King ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you so much @_hankingauthor @noexitpress @randomthingstours for my copy. Ad/PR/Gifted The Blurb January 2023. Cara’s great-aunt Audrey has died, and her husband Tony needs her presence at the funeral. It will be a stretch for Cara, whose every day is an emotional challenge, a challenge which is getting harder as her daughter’s tenth birthday approaches. But with her family beside her, she’s prepared to try… June 2000. Ten-year-old Cara and her sister Charlotte are sent to live with their great aunt and uncle, part of a famous acting family, when their mother is hospitalised. The Wolfes see the world as a drama they are starring in, and while her sister seems instantly at home Cara feels very much the outsider. And for all the staginess of Chaplin House, there is real tragedy brewing… My Review Absolutely loved this book but oh my God is it sad. I'm not sure a thriller has actually left me crying before and this definitely did. It's absolutely addictive, I couldn't put it down but it's so powerful at the same time. Check your trigger warnings before you read I'd say. It's beautifully and sensitively written but just so heart breaking. Highly recommended

✨ BOOK TOUR ✨ Title: Little Darlings by @_hankingauthor Genre: Psychological Drama Publisher: @noexitpress Publish Date: 9th April 2026 I’ve loved being part of the book tour with @randomthingstours , running 23rd April–7th May. We’re nearing the end now, and I can’t wait to see everyone else’s reviews come through and hear what they made of this one! Spanning dual timelines, Little Darlings follows Cara as she navigates grief in 2023 while confronting the shadows of her childhood in 2000. After the death of her great-aunt Audrey, Cara is drawn back to a past shaped by the eccentric Wolfe family - relatives immersed in a world of performance and appearances. While her sister settles in easily, Cara never feels like she truly belongs, and as her own daughter approaches the same age she once was, old memories begin to resurface. ✨ A tense and emotionally charged psychological drama that leans heavily into atmosphere, Little Darlings explores buried family secrets with a quiet intensity. The dual timeline is handled well, gradually revealing trauma in a way that feels layered and deliberate rather than rushed. There’s something deeply unsettling about the Wolfes’ theatrical, performative lifestyle, and I could really feel Cara becoming increasingly uncomfortable within it. The subtle favouritism toward her sister adds another quiet layer of tension, and those small moments of unease slowly build into something more sinister as the story progresses. What I appreciated most was how naturally that discomfort accumulates. Nothing is overplayed, but the sense that something is wrong grows steadily, making you question what really happened that summer. The adult timeline adds depth here too, showing how those experiences continue to shape Cara’s mental state and relationships. The pacing is on the slower side, but it suits the story. It allows the atmosphere to fully settle, and I found myself appreciating that rather than rushing through it. Dual timeline • Family secrets • Childhood trauma • Outsider protagonist • Generational trauma #LittleDarlings #RandomThingsTours #HannahKing #NoExitPress #BookReview

AD PR PRODUCT ⭐️ Little Darlings by Hannah King ⭐️ This is a book that will stay with me long after I have finished it! Cara’s great aunt passes away and she has to return to Chaplin House, a place where she spent a difficult part of her childhood, when she attends the funeral. This pilgrimage sets Cara on a path to reexamine things from her childhood she has locked away in a box in her mind. The novel is told through two timelines: the present day in 2023 and 2000, Cara’s childhood when she was living at Chaplin House with her older sister and the Wolfes, her great aunt and uncle and their son Lawrence. This made me tear through the book as I was always desperate to know what was going to happen in the other timeline when we switched. It also enhanced the story and its emotional resonance as it allowed us to see the impact living at Chaplin House and what happened there had on Cara at the time and continues to have on her in the present day. One of the key strengths of this novel is Hannah’s skill at show, don’t tell. She is able to covey so much in such a subtle way, which is especially powerful given the sensitive and dark nature of the topics at the heart of the novel. I was able to fully appreciate how Cara was feeling and what she was experiencing through Hannah’s skilful writing. One of my favourite things in the book was the names Cara had for certain things that came about due to her mishearing whah she was told by the adults around her. The best one of these was her calling the Audi car the family drove the Oddy. This made her childhood POV more real. This was not an easy read due to the dark and sensitive topics it dealt with but it was impactful and gripping. Hannah King can write difficult and heart rending topics with such sensitivity. I thoroughly enjoyed this book as I have her previous books. I cannot wait to read what she comes out with next! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ #LittleDarlings #bookstagram #review #bookstagram #nibookstagrammer

🎬BOOK REVIEW 96 OF THE YEAR🎬: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Little Darlings by @_hankingauthor is a slow burn psychological thriller told from dual points of view and two time periods. We follow Cara, and her sister Charlotte, who have to live with other family due to their mum’s health. The story set in the 2000s is told from aged 9 Cara to start, with her naive view of the world and difficulties moving from her mum, and this is integrated with adult Cara who pieces together the story in 2023, roughly 22 years later. What happened in her aunt and uncle’s house during the 2000 years? And can Cara get closure and a resolution as an adult? Psychological thriller fans will enjoy this and the full blurb is on pictures 2 and 3! Thank you @randomthingstours and @noexitpress for my copy in exchange for a review. #bookreview #psychologicalthriller #books #spillthebookswithkate #thrillerreaders

AD GIFTED PR It is my turn on the blog tour for ‘Little Darlings’ by @_hankingauthor , published by @noexitpress ‘Little Darlings’ is a heartbreaking tale of a dysfunctional family at a time of crisis. This was definitely not an easy read, and it deals with some dark topics. This is the first book of the author’s that I have read, but I was impressed with the writing and the characterisation of Cara in particular. Cara and Charlotte are aged nine and ten, and after their mum falls ill, they are sent to live with their great-aunt Audrey and great-uncle Tony at Chaplin House. The Wolfes are acting royalty, and their son Lawrence is ‘of the moment’. Told over a dual timeline and mainly told in the voice of Cara at age nine and now 23 years later, Audrey has died, and Cara and her family head to the funeral where she has to face her traumatic past. This was an emotional read, and I ended up listening to the audiobook, which I became utterly engrossed in. Cara and Charlotte’s story was incredibly moving and profound. It was a slow burn of a book, and that was matched in the narration being calm and collected. As if Cara was protecting herself by keeping calm and those anxieties at bay, but ultimately being unable to by the end. Despite dealing with one of the darkest topics, I was unable to stop listening, and that was a testament to the way the author built up the characters and the tension. I will certainly be looking out for what they do next. Let me know if you pick this one up! Thanks to Anne @randomthingstours for asking me to be involved and for arranging the #giftedpr copy of the book. #littledarlings