"Topical, compelling, stimulating, a female MP’s world implodes when a body is discovered in her London home."
This powerful, provocative, intoxicating rush of a read hit me head on and ploughed through my thoughts. Mother, former teacher and now MP Emma Webster is used to the press and public judging her, when a man is found dead in her home it opens the floodgates. Trolling, bullying, the difficulties of being a woman and a powerful one at that, are examined while encased in a plot that accelerates into a thrilling story. Newspaper reports and social media comments lie in wait. The focus on different characters and their points of view ensures each nuanced layer splices to the next. Only Emma is written in the first person, I felt her emotional reaction and found myself positively aching for her. The characters are beautifully flawed, each giving you access yet creating a space to explore their personality and choices made. Sarah Vaughan allows you to see what’s coming, the what but not the how, letting you in while creating tension with the slicing edge of the story. Thoroughly provoking thoughts while being highly entertaining, Reputation is timely, convincing, and exhilarating read.
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From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal, soon to be a major Netflix series... Reputation: it takes a lifetime to build and just one moment to destroy. 'Sarah Vaughan has done it again. Superb' Shari Lapena
Emma Webster is a respectable MP.
Emma Webster is a devoted mother.
Emma Webster is innocent of the murder of a tabloid journalist.
Emma Webster is a liar.
#Reputation: The story you tell about yourself. And the lies others choose to believe...
Reputation features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Book Club Recommendations, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Recommendations, Crime and Mystery, Political / Legal Thrillers, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Social issues, Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes
Reputation is available in Paperback, Hardback
Reputation was written by Sarah Vaughan and published by Simon & Schuster Ltd
Reputation has 471 pages
£13.49