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A review by sikonat
Reputation by Sarah Vaughan
4.0
Joan Jett might've sang she didn't give a damn about her bad reputation, but in Sarah Vaughan's 'Reputation', its everything for politician Emma Webster.
After sacrificing her marriage for her political career - because of course her initially supportive husband can't handle his wife in the power position, Emma battles her own parliamentary party colleagues as well as those on the opposite side of the bench in order to lobby for a bill to protect women and girls from online abuse. All while receiving online abuse.
Meanwhile her 14 year old daughter Flora encounters her own bullying, but decides on fighting back in a way that would leave her mum embarassed.
Throw in a man dead in her home and Emma's life is turned upside down as she fights to protect her reptuation in court.
Vaughan weaves a slow burn (at times I found the court stuff dragged for me) thriller about women in public life and the misogynistic attacks on their reputation, particularly online where its easy to publish near-threats from behind a screen. It cleverly tackles online abuse from a generational divide, along with the ways men and women - specifically white men and women experience online abuse.
After sacrificing her marriage for her political career - because of course her initially supportive husband can't handle his wife in the power position, Emma battles her own parliamentary party colleagues as well as those on the opposite side of the bench in order to lobby for a bill to protect women and girls from online abuse. All while receiving online abuse.
Meanwhile her 14 year old daughter Flora encounters her own bullying, but decides on fighting back in a way that would leave her mum embarassed.
Throw in a man dead in her home and Emma's life is turned upside down as she fights to protect her reptuation in court.
Vaughan weaves a slow burn (at times I found the court stuff dragged for me) thriller about women in public life and the misogynistic attacks on their reputation, particularly online where its easy to publish near-threats from behind a screen. It cleverly tackles online abuse from a generational divide, along with the ways men and women - specifically white men and women experience online abuse.