Emma Webster is a high profile labour MP who is actively campaigning for women's right - especially the right for privacy and to make revenge porn illegal. As a public figure, her life is subjected to terrible tweets, threatening emails and being stalked. She is also a mother to a fourteen year old daughter, Flora, who spends majority of her time with Emma's ex husband and his new wife.
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Emma doesn't realise that her life as an MP is also effecting her daughter's social life, until a day when Flora gets caught sending sexual explicit video of her friend. This is so ironic considering the cause that Emma fights for in the parliament. Things just get worse when Emma found a body of a journalist, Mike Stokes, at her home.
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This book is a captivating who done it, court room drama and gripping legal thriller. So, grab this book and follow Emma's roller coaster to fight for her reputation and her freedom in court. Thanks to the author for the great ending as well, I was holding my breath prior to the ending.😱

This was a little slower than I was expecting. And repetitive at times, but the final 3rd made it worth my while as the speed ramped up.

I really like how Sarah Vaughan writes, so whilst this wasn't a favourite of mine, I will still be picking up her next book.

Thanks to Netgalley for a copy of this book for an honest review.

I'm not sure what I think about this book. Some parts were really good and it definitely improved as it went. Didn't like Caroline at all and loved that Emma kept referring to her as a cuckoo!

I have to say I like reading something from an author I have never read before but I can't say I liked this book much at all. I found it very hard to get into and get my head around. I found the characters hard to like and a bit annoying.

All the story was a bit boring, long winded and repetitive and a bit predictable and just wasn't mind kind of book. But I had to try and had to give it a go but sadly not for me.

Emma Webster is a British Labour MP, one of her major issues is revenge porn and she works with a journalist contact on getting a bill through the parliament. The book highlights the online abuse and media treatment that female politicians are subjected to. (There’s also a subplot of bullying that her teenage daughter is experiencing) The book is written from different characters point of view (mostly Emma’s, but also her daughter, Flora, her ex husbands new wife, Caroline and others) and it’s not all linear, once a particular incident is about to take place, it jumps forward and the incident is revealed in flashback. There’s a big murder trial and it becomes incredibly repetitive…
I was a bit disappointed in this, I didn’t feel particularly close to the characters but I did read it to the end and I wanted to know what happened. (I think it will probably make a good TV show!)

I thought that this novel started well and had me intrigued to begin with. The story centers around MP Emma, a woman who tries to use her position to campaign for women’s rights, particularly on the issue of women being shamed by sexual images on the internet. She is stalked and harassed and eventually is threatened and charged when an incident gets out of hand. This is not the first novel I have read by Sarah Vaughan. I have generally liked her work, but this one just missed the mark for me. I found the plot convoluted and the characters apart from Emma were not well drawn. The other women in the novel were stereotypical and generally not likeable. This novel was average. I’m not sorry that I read it, but would not read it again. Thank you to Sion and Schuster Australia and Netgalley for an ARC of this novel.

Great novel - fast pace, twists and turns and a setting and characters you could picture. Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

In Sarah Vaughan's thrilling new novel, Reputation, British MP, Emma Webster, is suddenly accused of the imaginable. In the midst of rising popularity and a strong media presence propelled by her achievements in bringing forward groundbreaking legislation to better protect victims of Internet crimes, a man ends up dead in her share house. While the mystery surrounding the death unravels, Vaughan makes visible the many challenges facing females in both parliament and in society more broadly, making readers question what we continue to allow as a society and the many hypocritical attitudes that prevail. It's definitely a slow burn thriller, but as griping and exciting as ever.

Sarah Vaughan hit it out of the park with this one! It was so real. With social media and the 24 hour news cycle the pressure on anyone in the public eye, particularly women and how they look, is relentless. Journalists are always looking for ‘gotcha’ moment and the trolls are always waiting for an opportunity to deride, insult and threaten any woman who strays from the narrow path of what is deemed to be acceptable behaviour, or looks.

Emma Webster, 44 years old, has been an MP for 4 years. She is divorced but still very close to her 14 year old daughter, Flora. Emma is a ruthless campaigner for women’s rights and this has already made her many enemies. She has been threatened with death and serious harm to both herself and her family. She recently had a win with some legislation that would keep the names of minors subjected to revenge porn from being published. On this crusade she had the help of a sympathetic journalist, Mike. They had worked together before and got along well.

On this occasion he suggested a celebratory drink and a meal. One drink turned into two bottles and they kind of cosied up. When they left, on foot, they ended up in a hotel and had some very pleasant between the sheets action. Nothing wrong with that - both divorced and consenting adults. But when she wakes up early and sees a string of increasingly desperate messages and missed calls from her ex about their daughter she has to leave and, in her haste, she may have been a bit short with Mike. She did tell him their night together was a mistake and wouldn’t be happening again. It was clear he was not happy.

Flora, who had been bullied relentlessly at school, had finally snapped and done something very stupid in retaliation. Emma wants to protect her and keep her name out of the media but Mike pushes, sensing a big story.

One night on her way home, already in a state of heightened tension Emma arrives home to find the alarm off, the hall light blown and a man she can’t immediately identify in her house. What would you do? Soon she is facing a murder charge. The courtroom scenes are harrowing. But the circumstances are far from straightforward as you will learn towards the end of the book.

This story had me on the edge of my seat. Not only was Emma’s reputation at stake but that of her emotionally fragile daughter. The characterisations were spot on. I can think of examples here, in my own country, of media and social media pile-ons that are designed to destroy their poor victims. It is not good enough! The book was exceptionally well written but to say I enjoyed is not quite right. It made me feel very uncomfortable that real women are subjected to this degradation. Many thanks to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster Australia for the much appreciated arc which I reviewed voluntarily and honestly.

3.5 stars rounded up
After reading Anatomy of a Scandal last year, I was excited when I heard Sarah Vaughan was releasing a new book. I enjoyed this one but I'll confess I preferred her first book. This one felt a little slow paced and there were several points where if I considered giving up but I wanted to see how it would be wrapped up and the final events. I liked the POV of Emma, but found the other characters didn't really add a lot to the story which couldn't have been communicated just as well through Emma. I liked the social and feminist angle but at times this felt a little heavy handed. I read most of the book across one or two sittings. Overall, it was enjoyable book that will appeal to fans of the psychological mystery genre. Thank you to Netgalley, the author and publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is an absolutely fantastic read. As suggested by the title this book centres around the importance of Reputation and how easily it can be lost and how hard it can be to get it back. You night even say this is a timely novel given everything that is going on in the world at the moment.

MP Emma Webster agrees to an interview focusing on her views which are of course feminist views with a particular focus on revenge porn. What follows is a barrage of threats on social media by keyboard warriors and some of the comments are disgusting and what makes it worse they are used all the time. Emma is not the only one having issues with trolls on social media her daughter is also having issues these however are being inflected by her friends - other women!

Emma finds herself in more trouble when a man she has issues with is found dead in her house. Emma is forced into the fight of her life to save herself, her family and her reputation.

This book is told from multiply points of view, something I struggle with usually, but it works seamlessly in this book. It adds to the tension of novel. Once I started reading this book I could not put it down. If you take nothing else from this novel and in fact this review, before you post on social media think twice and then think twice again - your typed words have an impact as well.