Little Disasters: A Novel

Sarah Vaughan

Aug 2020 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

This “thrilling and emotional depiction of family drama, friendship, and trust will have you on the edge of your seat” (CNN) as it explores the complexity of motherhood from the bestselling author of the inspiration behind the hit Netflix series Anatomy of a Scandal.

You think you know her…but look a little closer.

She is a stay-at-home mother-of-three with boundless reserves of patience, energy, and love. After being friends for a decade, this is how Liz sees Jess.

Then one moment changes everything.

Dark thoughts and carefully guarded secrets surface—and Liz is left questioning everything she thought she knew about her friend, and about herself. The truth can’t come soon enough.

Evocative and haunting, Little Disasters is “an important book as well as a brilliant read” (Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author).

Ratings and reviews

Note: This isn't a thriller, it's a domistc drama about staying home mothers and crying babies. This is a good book and I really enjoyed reading it. It focuses on the harsh reality of having to be a mother of multiple children without any support from the father or anyone else. And how hard it is to be a full time mom since it's an unending job in which there are no breaks nor holidays. Add some mental or psychological issues to this equation and that would end in a disaster. However, it dragged on and on and on. And went from good to OK to are you kidding me to just end it already. It could have been 150 pages shorter. And I agree with the comments that said that the last twist about how Betsy got hurt was just ridiculous. The previously presented scenario was more believable and more likely to happen.

Just awful

About the author

Sarah Vaughan studied English at Oxford and went on to become a journalist. She spent eleven years at The Guardian as a news reporter and political correspondent before leaving to freelance and write fiction. Her first thriller, Anatomy of a Scandal, was an instant international bestseller, translated into twenty-four languages, and is available to stream on Netflix as a worldwide number one series starring Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery, and Rupert Friend. Her bestselling novel, Little Disasters, has also been optioned for television, as has Reputation, her fifth novel. Find out more at SarahVaughanAuthor.com.