BOOKS
BASED ON A TRUE STORY
ALL FAMILIES HAVE SECRETS… BUT IT’S THE LIES THAT CAN KILL.
The compelling new novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal.
“Expertly plotted and crackling with tension, this is dysfunctional family psychodrama at its unputdownable best.”
— GUARDIAN
REPUTATION
A LIFETIME TO BUILD.
A MOMENT TO DESTROY.
The bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal—now a hit 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….
“Sarah Vaughan has done it again. Superb.”
— SHARI LAPENA
LITTLE DISASTERS
YOU THINK YOU KNOW HER…BUT LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER
From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal—now a hit Netflix series—a new thought-provoking novel exploring the complexity of motherhood and all that connects and disconnects us.
“Taut, clever, compelling and guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.”
— PAULA HAWKINS, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Girl On The Train and Into The Water
ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL
SOME PEOPLE’S SECRETS ARE DARKER THAN OTHERS.
NOW A GLOBAL #1 NETFLIX SERIES
“A nuanced story line perfectly in tune with our #MeToo times.”
— PEOPLE
EARLIER TITLES
Sarah’s first two novels are women’s fiction for the reading group market, though both – particularly her second, The Farm at the Edge of the World – include dark threads. The Art of Baking Blind, published in 2014, is about the impossibility of perfection, and why we bake; The Farm at the Edge of the World (2016) is a historic timeslip about love, loss, and redemption, set in north Cornwall.
the farm at the edge of the world
1939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a granite farm in north Cornwall, perched on a windswept cliff. There they meet the farmer's daughter, Maggie, and against fields of shimmering barley and a sky that stretches forever, enjoy a childhood largely protected from the ravages of war.
But in the sweltering summer of 1943 something happens that will have tragic consequences. A small lie escalates. Over 70 years on Alice is determined to atone for her behaviour - but has she left it too late?
2014, and Maggie's granddaughter Lucy flees to the childhood home she couldn't wait to leave thirteen years earlier, marriage over; career apparently ended thanks to one terrible mistake. Can she rebuild herself and the family farm? And can she help her grandmother, plagued by a secret, to find some lasting peace?
This is a novel about identity and belonging; guilt, regret and atonement; the unrealistic expectations placed on children and the pain of coming of age. It's about small lies and dark secrets. But above all it's about a beautiful, desolate, complex place.
the art of baking blind
In 1966, Kathleen Eaden, cookbook writer and wife of a supermarket magnate, published The Art of Baking, her guide to nurturing a family by creating the most exquisite pastries, biscuits and cakes. Now, five amateur bakers are competing to become the New Mrs. Eaden. There's Jenny, facing an empty nest now that her family has flown; Claire, who has sacrificed her dreams for her daughter; Mike, trying to parent his two kids after his wife's death; Vicki, who has dropped everything to be at home with her baby boy; and Karen, perfect Karen, who knows what it's like to have nothing and is determined her facade shouldn't slip.
As unlikely alliances are forged and secrets rise to the surface, making the choicest pastry seems the least of the contestants' problems. For they will learn--as Mrs. Eaden did before them--that while perfection is possible in the kitchen, it's very much harder in life, in Sarah Vaughan's The Art of Baking Blind.