Little Disasters: Book vs. Series

Paramount+’s 2025 series Little Disasters is adapted from Sarah Vaughan’s 2020 novel. Both follow friends Jess and Liz after Liz reports Jess to social services over her baby’s unexplained injury.

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About the book and the series
Book
Little Disasters cover
Author
Sarah Vaughan
Year
2020
Pages
448Buy book
Audiobook length
10 hr 52 minGet audiobook
Narrator
Sophie Roberts, see all

Pediatrician Liz Trenchard faces an agonizing professional decision when her close friend Jess brings her baby to the emergency room with an unexplained head injury. Reporting the case to social services fractures their longtime friendship and exposes fears and secrets among the mothers who thought they knew one another.

Series
Little Disasters poster
Creator
Ruth Fowler
Year
2025
Episode
46 minWatch on Amazon
Seasons
1
Episodes
6
Network
Paramount+
Cast
Diane Kruger, Jo Joyner, Shelley Conn, Emily Taaffe
Genre
Drama, Thriller
IMDb
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Jess brings her baby to the hospital with an unexplained head injury, placing her close friend Liz in an impossible position as the attending doctor. Liz’s decision to contact social services triggers an investigation that strains a decade-long friendship and unsettles the other mothers in their circle.

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