Sarah Vaughan had been thinking about abuse of power for several years before she sat down to write Anatomy of a Scandal, her bestselling book about sex and consent in the House of Commons.

Her years working as a journalist had convinced her the subject matter was important, but she had no idea quite how timely her novel would prove to be.

The book, a psychological thriller about a government minister who is accused of raping his parliamentary aide in a lift in the Commons, was published in January 2018, a few months after the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke in America, triggering the #MeToo movement, and the Pestminster allegations of inappropriate behaviour by some MPs.

It sold more than 200,000 copies and spent 10

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Anatomy of a Scandal writer Sarah Vaughan: If male MPs were better behaved, I might never have made it - The Times