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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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Moreover, Jess's sister Martha is asked to stay at the Curtis home, to watch over Jess and Ed's boys, until the case is resolved one way or another. Author Sarah Vaughan, “I was blown away by Roughcut’s pitch: their nuanced discussion of the universality of Little Disasters, their commitment to being brave and true to the darkness of the story, and their vision for how the characters might grow. I regret to say that this book was just not for me through no fault of the author’s literary abilities. Reputation, published in March 2022 in the UK, and in the US and elsewhere later this year, has been optioned for TV by the team behind Anatomy.

She shows us that these ordinary women are achieving extraordinary things, sometimes against the odds, and that it is up to each of us to draw the line between the public and the personal, between right and wrong, between revenge and forgiveness.

It questions women’s maternal instincts, endurance under humanly impossible conditions like sleep deprivation, 24/7 being there for their child, gathering wits together not to suffer from poor judgment and fail from critical choices they make about their children’s lives. I found both Liz and Jess to be a bit lean in regard to characterization - Jess is the seemingly perfect stay-at-home mom, Liz is the guilt-obsessed working mom, etc. The original ending, before the unpredictable twist, was a good one and made for a consistent and highly readable story. Anatomy spent 10 weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list, and Netflix announced in May its plans to adapt the novel into a six-part miniseries. The window behind her looks onto her garden, which spills into the sprawling green fields behind her Cambridge, England, home.

The story is told in alternating viewpoints; both Jess and Liz, varying across timelines, so that the suspense pulls you in, and brings you along from start to finish.Even so, some women aren't up to the task - temporarily or permanently - because of stress, anxiety, fatigue, frustration, post-partum depression, mental illness, or other nebulous factors. J. Clarkson (Jessica Jones, Succession) and stars Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery and Rupert Friend.

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