Based on a True Story: The gripping new suspense novel from the bestselling author of 'Anatomy of a Scandal', guaranteed to keep you up all night...
Autor Sarah Vaughanen Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 mar 2026
The compelling new novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal.
‘A flawlessly constructed thriller, perfectly paced and filled with smart reveals!’ LUCY CLARKE, The Castaways
‘A rich, intoxicating brew, I loved it’ LOUISE CANDLISH, Our House
‘The ultimate literary thriller!’ VERONICA HENRY, The Beach Hut
A lavish 70th birthday party. A body found on a storm-lashed beach. And a secret that someone is dying to tell...
Famed children’s author Dame Eleanor Kingman has summoned her family and friends to her exquisite manor house on the cliffs. They're celebrating her birthday – and her latest number one bestseller in her series of books based on a mother fox and her cubs.
But the night before the party, Eleanor receives an email: an email that threatens to expose the lie she’s kept up for over half a century.
Someone knows her secret. Is it her estranged literary agent? Is it her ex-husband, to whom she no longer speaks? Is it the nanny she fired all those years ago, who always did have a knack for storytelling? Or is it one of her three daughters, all of whom have a stake in the publishing empire she has built...
With a TV crew arriving to film a documentary of her life, Eleanor needs to find out who sent the email – and preserve her multimillion-pound career.
But when push comes to shove, and it's time to tell the truth – will anyone actually believe her?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781398502086
ISBN-10: 1398502081
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster UK
ISBN-10: 1398502081
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster UK
Recenzii
‘A flawlessly constructed thriller, perfectly paced and filled with smart reveals. This is a read-in-one-sitting delight of a novel!’ LUCY CLARKE, The Castaways
‘There’s a dangerous sense of reckoning in the air as the eminent Kingman family gather at their Cornish clifftop house to celebrate matriarch Eleanor's success – and just possibly to kill each other in the process. A rich, intoxicating brew, I loved it’ LOUISE CANDLISH, Our House
‘Sarah’s elegant prose, stunning descriptions and nuanced characters are all wrapped up in a cracking plot with a ticking clock – the ultimate literary thriller! Secrets, lies, subterfuge, scandal and sibling rivalry – the perfect recipe for a page-turner. I devoured it!’ VERONICA HENRY, The Beach Hut
‘Glorious Cornish clifftops, a glittering party and a swirling vortex of family secrets . . . Sarah Vaughan lobs an explosive cocktail into Golden Age Crime to create something wholly new and deeply satisfying. I drank it up’ SARAH HILARY
‘Sarah Vaughan is one of my go-to writers and a modern, female re-telling of King Lear is exactly the sort of brilliance I have come to expect from her. This is a compelling story, with deep roots, which asks us to think about the stories we tell not just publicly, but also privately, to make up a life. It manages that rare trick of being both addictive and thoughtful’ ARAMINTA HALL
‘Three sisters gather to celebrate with their narcissistic mother. I could literally feel the tension and frustration simmering between the lines. Wonderful storytelling’ EMMA CURTIS
‘Vaughan sets in motion the final, tragic act of a decades-long family drama. She writes beautifully and incisively; her evocative prose is spiked with sharp observations and insights that spare nobody. Sibling rivalries are stretched to breaking point, secrets leak, and loyalties quiver. When lucrative fame is a member of the family and storytelling is part of your DNA, nothing is predictable. A stunning novel’ GILLY MACMILLAN
‘A real pressure cooker of a novel – tense, immersive, and brilliantly told. I genuinely couldn't put it down. And the Cornish clifftop setting leapt from the page, with all of its drama and dangerous beauty’ EMYLIA HALL
‘A rollicking, thrilling read, Based on a True Story snares from the first page with its deliciously dysfunctional, glamorous family, bristling with characters to love or loathe, and a seductive Cornish setting. Another Sarah Vaughan cracker. I loved it’ EVE CHASE, The Midnight Hour
‘What's not to love? A matriarch with buried secrets, an explosive party at a clifftop house and a family rapidly unravelling – a deliciously twisty page-turner that also packs a real emotional punch. Vaughan is simply a genius at immersing you in simmering tensions and turning up the heat’ ELLERY LLOYD, The Club
‘Utterly addictive, surprising and full of characters you’ll love to hate’ LOUISE BEECH
'This is certainly one party no one will forget. With a cast of characters I loved to hate and secrets galore, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Smart, propulsive and so much fun . . . I loved it’ NIKKI SMITH
‘Are there better words than ‘there's a new Sarah Vaughan coming out?’ Vaughan's books race along so thrillingly – you can never put them down. I zoomed through Based on a True Story, but the characters have really stayed with me. Vaughan had created a delightfully suspicious group of party-goers, all with their own questionable ambitions and motives. I particularly adored the Cornish setting – Vaughan captures the light and magic of that coastline so beautifully’ HOLLY WATT
‘What a delight to be back with Sarah Vaughan's writing, and in particular to back in Cornwall. A sparkling, clever and compelling tale of power, money, lies and the stories we tell ourselves to survive’ ANNA MAZZOLA
'An immersive, vivid, escapist story told from multiple perspectives by a fraught cast of characters, most of whom are nursing awful secrets – this is Sarah Vaughan at the height of her powers' LUCY ATKINS
‘Sarah Vaughan is the queen of psychological thrillers. Based on a True Story is another twisty, breathtaking banger that held me captive until the dying moments, at which point I needed a stiff drink and a lie down to compose myself again! If you think your family is dysfunctional, meet the Kingmans’ STEPH McGOVERN, Steph's Packed Lunch
'A tense story of family secrets, simmering resentments, with a mysterious matriarch at the centre of it. Based on a True Story is a smart exploration of social class and asks the question: is anybody really who they say they are? Vaughan at her best’ JO MURRAY, author of Dissection of a Murder
‘It’s a hugely addictive story with a dark undercurrent, a cast of compelling characters with their own agendas, and breathless twists that make it almost impossible to put down’ CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN
‘There’s a dangerous sense of reckoning in the air as the eminent Kingman family gather at their Cornish clifftop house to celebrate matriarch Eleanor's success – and just possibly to kill each other in the process. A rich, intoxicating brew, I loved it’ LOUISE CANDLISH, Our House
‘Sarah’s elegant prose, stunning descriptions and nuanced characters are all wrapped up in a cracking plot with a ticking clock – the ultimate literary thriller! Secrets, lies, subterfuge, scandal and sibling rivalry – the perfect recipe for a page-turner. I devoured it!’ VERONICA HENRY, The Beach Hut
‘Glorious Cornish clifftops, a glittering party and a swirling vortex of family secrets . . . Sarah Vaughan lobs an explosive cocktail into Golden Age Crime to create something wholly new and deeply satisfying. I drank it up’ SARAH HILARY
‘Sarah Vaughan is one of my go-to writers and a modern, female re-telling of King Lear is exactly the sort of brilliance I have come to expect from her. This is a compelling story, with deep roots, which asks us to think about the stories we tell not just publicly, but also privately, to make up a life. It manages that rare trick of being both addictive and thoughtful’ ARAMINTA HALL
‘Three sisters gather to celebrate with their narcissistic mother. I could literally feel the tension and frustration simmering between the lines. Wonderful storytelling’ EMMA CURTIS
‘Vaughan sets in motion the final, tragic act of a decades-long family drama. She writes beautifully and incisively; her evocative prose is spiked with sharp observations and insights that spare nobody. Sibling rivalries are stretched to breaking point, secrets leak, and loyalties quiver. When lucrative fame is a member of the family and storytelling is part of your DNA, nothing is predictable. A stunning novel’ GILLY MACMILLAN
‘A real pressure cooker of a novel – tense, immersive, and brilliantly told. I genuinely couldn't put it down. And the Cornish clifftop setting leapt from the page, with all of its drama and dangerous beauty’ EMYLIA HALL
‘A rollicking, thrilling read, Based on a True Story snares from the first page with its deliciously dysfunctional, glamorous family, bristling with characters to love or loathe, and a seductive Cornish setting. Another Sarah Vaughan cracker. I loved it’ EVE CHASE, The Midnight Hour
‘What's not to love? A matriarch with buried secrets, an explosive party at a clifftop house and a family rapidly unravelling – a deliciously twisty page-turner that also packs a real emotional punch. Vaughan is simply a genius at immersing you in simmering tensions and turning up the heat’ ELLERY LLOYD, The Club
‘Utterly addictive, surprising and full of characters you’ll love to hate’ LOUISE BEECH
'This is certainly one party no one will forget. With a cast of characters I loved to hate and secrets galore, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Smart, propulsive and so much fun . . . I loved it’ NIKKI SMITH
‘Are there better words than ‘there's a new Sarah Vaughan coming out?’ Vaughan's books race along so thrillingly – you can never put them down. I zoomed through Based on a True Story, but the characters have really stayed with me. Vaughan had created a delightfully suspicious group of party-goers, all with their own questionable ambitions and motives. I particularly adored the Cornish setting – Vaughan captures the light and magic of that coastline so beautifully’ HOLLY WATT
‘What a delight to be back with Sarah Vaughan's writing, and in particular to back in Cornwall. A sparkling, clever and compelling tale of power, money, lies and the stories we tell ourselves to survive’ ANNA MAZZOLA
'An immersive, vivid, escapist story told from multiple perspectives by a fraught cast of characters, most of whom are nursing awful secrets – this is Sarah Vaughan at the height of her powers' LUCY ATKINS
‘Sarah Vaughan is the queen of psychological thrillers. Based on a True Story is another twisty, breathtaking banger that held me captive until the dying moments, at which point I needed a stiff drink and a lie down to compose myself again! If you think your family is dysfunctional, meet the Kingmans’ STEPH McGOVERN, Steph's Packed Lunch
'A tense story of family secrets, simmering resentments, with a mysterious matriarch at the centre of it. Based on a True Story is a smart exploration of social class and asks the question: is anybody really who they say they are? Vaughan at her best’ JO MURRAY, author of Dissection of a Murder
‘It’s a hugely addictive story with a dark undercurrent, a cast of compelling characters with their own agendas, and breathless twists that make it almost impossible to put down’ CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN
Descriere
Once upon a time there was a family. Everything else is a lie. The compelling new novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal.