Sarah Vaughan Books in Order (Anatomy of a Scandal)

All of Sarah Vaughan’s Books in Order!

Who is Sarah Vaughan?

Sarah Vaughan is a best-selling award-winning British author. Before that, she spent 15 years as a journalist, including 11 at the Guardian as a political correspondent and news reporter.

Now, as it is described on her official website, she’s writing “thrillers exploring power, privilege, and misogyny, and incorporating police investigations and criminal trials.”

Her book “Anatomy of a Scandal” was turned into a Netflix miniseries starring Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery, and Rupert Friend, and other books of her are soon going to be adapted as well.

How to read Sarah Vaughan’s Books in Order?

• The Art of Baking Blind (2014) – 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.
• The Farm at the Edge of the World (2016) – 1939, 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 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 out of all proportion. Over 70 years on Alice is determined to make amends – but has she left it too late? 2014, and Maggie’s granddaughter Lucy flees to the childhood home she couldn’t wait to leave, marriage over; career ending thanks to one terrible mistake. Can she rebuild herself? And can she help her grandmother, plagued by a secret, to find some lasting peace?
• Anatomy of a Scandal (2018) – Sophie Whitehouse has a lovely home, two adorable children, and a handsome, successful husband. In other words, she has the “perfect” life. But everything changes the night her husband James comes home and confesses an indiscretion. Suddenly, her neat, ordered world is turned upside down. Did she ever really know the man she married? And, as it turns out, James’s revelation is just the tip of the iceberg. He stands accused of a terrible crime. But, the truth is even more shocking than anyone ever could have thought. Is James the guilty perpetrator or an innocent victim of a toxic agenda?

• Little Disasters (2019) – 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.
• Reputation (2022) – Emma Webster is a respectable MP, the devoted mother of Flora. As a former teacher, 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. 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 a man is found dead in Emma’s home and she’s pushed to the limits as the worst happens and her life is torn apart.

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