"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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"Astonishingly timely and clever, utterly gripping." --Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Sarah Vaughan has done it again. Superb." --Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author The bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal--now a hit Netflix series--returns with a 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. 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" (CrimeReads), Reputation brilliantly illustrates that it isn't who you are that matters...it's who people think you are.
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 Atria Books
Reputation has 352 pages
