Little Disasters: the compelling and thought-provoking new novel from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Anatomy of a Scandal

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I found once the story got going it became gripping with some unexpected twists that left me thinking long afterwards. Do she and her husband have ill-fated relationship affected the way they treated to their own children? The ending also just did not work for me - while I do enjoy a book that ties things up in the end, I do not like when a serious, life-altering plot suddenly flashes six months in the future and everything is now coming up roses. She spent 11 years at the Guardian as a news reporter, a health correspondent, and a political correspondent. Sarah Vaughan’s latest contemporary fiction title is best suited to those who like to read morally complex domestic fiction stories.

El libro se estructura en capítulos cortos, en distintos planos temporales, antes, durante y después del incidente, con algún salto a años anteriores a los hechos. Liz deals with too many questions and also worries about her mother’s mentally unbalanced state who suffers from terminal disease and for making things for worse she drinks herself to death.Motherhood is also a thorny issue in Sarah Vaughan’s second psychological thriller, Little Disasters… Told from multiple points of view, this raw and painfully real portrayal of insecurities, guilt, shame and postnatal anxiety is complex, nuanced and moving. The book begins with Liz, a pediatrician, who is suddenly faced with an ethical and personally difficult decision when her good friend, Jess, comes into the emergency room with her 10 month old daughter, Betsey. First thing to know is that this is not really a mystery or a “domestic thriller” - I went in expecting that, and found more of a Big Little Lies type story of a group of friends with a focus on one particular family. Overall, a fantastic book that shines a spotlight on how hard and unrelenting parenting can be, that sometimes it is drudgery and very exhausting and at others, great joy.

You are given everything you need, right when you need them…what you decide to do with them is entirely your choice.I didn't enjoy Liz's chapters at all, and found her childhood "backstory" distracting and unnecessary [Slight spoiler alert: I felt like it was thrown in for the author to show, 'see, here is what a really bad mom looks like - Jess is fabulous compared to her']. Little Disasters marks my introduction to the work of Sarah Vaughan but I have her international bestselling previous release, Anatomy of a Scandal sitting on my TBR shelves. From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal – a new thought-provoking novel exploring the complexity of motherhood and all that connects and disconnects us. And I genuinely appreciate Vaughan’s efforts to increase awareness and understanding of postpartum depression. Here she moves on to another area in which everyone feels free to criticise any woman perceived as falling short… Painful and realistic, this is a novel that should be read by everyone planning to have a child.