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.
About the book and the series

- 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.

- 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
- View on IMDb
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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