Mad Mabel

Eighty-one-year-old Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick lives a quiet suburban life. She is a curmudgeon who minds everyone else's business, and few would guess she has spent decades burying a secret — or that the people in her life have a strange history of coming to a foul end.

When an elderly neighbour is found dead, no one suspects a thing, until Elsie's true identity surfaces: Mad Mabel, the youngest Australian ever convicted of murder, more than sixty years ago. The police start asking questions. The media circles. And a new little girl on the street — talkative, curious, nosy — stops at nothing to befriend her.

Weaving past and present together with Sally Hepworth's trademark twists, humour and heart, Mad Mabel asks whether the past has finally caught up with Mabel, or whether it is time for her to set the record straight.