The bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal – soon to be a Netflix series – returns with a new psychological thriller about a politician whose less-than-perfect personal life is thrust into the spotlight when a body is discovered in her home.
As a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career – including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora.
A former teacher, the glare of the spotlight is unnerving for Emma, particularly when it leads to countless insults, threats, and trolling as she tries to work in the public eye. As a woman, she knows her reputation is worth its weight in gold but as a politician, she discovers it only takes one slip-up to destroy it completely.
Fourteen-year-old Flora is learning the same hard lessons at school as she encounters heartless bullying. When another teenager takes her own life, Emma lobbies for a new law to protect women and girls from the effects of online abuse. Now, Emma and Flora find their personal lives uncomfortably intersected… but then the unthinkable happens.
A man is found dead in Emma’s home. A man she had every reason to be afraid of and to want gone. Fighting to protect her reputation, and determined to protect her family at all costs, Emma is pushed to the limits as the worst happens and her life is torn apart.
Another breathless and twisty novel from an absolute master of suspense, Reputation brilliantly illustrates that it isn’t who you are that matters… it’s who people think you are.
Like many of you, I simply couldn’t get enough of Sarah Vaughan’s Sunday Times bestselling novel Anatomy of a Scandal. Now, with a Netflix adaptation on the horizon, there’s no better time to dive back into Vaughan’s gripping storytelling. Her latest novel, Reputation, is an expertly plotted thriller that explores power, privilege and public image.
It seems today that anyone’s reputation can be destroyed in an instant. Stuck at the centre of a scandalous murder, Emma’s career and emotional wellbeing plummet. Through the perspective of a respected MP like Emma, Vaughan gives the reader a fresh and compelling look at public image, cancel culture and the effects it can have on an individual. Whether she was responsible for the murder and deserves it is a whole other matter…
Timely and twisty, Reputation is a fantastic look into the deterioration of someone at the brunt of public backlash. With timely themes and a thrilling mystery, Vaughan has once again shown she’s the queen of high stakes political thrillers.
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