num_pages: 336
description: The bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal 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.As a politician Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career--including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter Flora. A former teacher she finds the glare of the spotlight unnerving particularly when it leads to countless insults threats and trolling as she tries to work in the public eye. As a woman 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 the unthinkable happens: A man is found dead in Emmas home a man she had every reason to be afraid of and to want gone. Fighting to protect her reputation and determined to protect her family at all costs Emma is pushed to the limits as the worst happens and her life is torn apart.
language: English
title: Reputation
publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books