Sarah Vaughan read English at Oxford University and went on to become a journalist. After training at the Press Association, she spent eleven years at the Guardian as a news reporter and political correspondent before leaving to freelance and write fiction. Anatomy of a Scandal, her third novel, and her first for Simon & Schuster, was a Sunday Times top five bestseller, a Kindle number one bestseller, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and has been translated into 22 languages. It is currently being developed as a Netflix series. Little Disasters has been published in the UK and US and will be published in France, Sweden, Portugal and Spain. Sarah lives near Cambridge with her husband and two children.