NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Little Disasters author Sarah Vaughan says the Paramount+ series based on her novel gets what she thinks is most important right.
"I'm a little bit of a stickler for authenticity and being correct about the things that really mattered to me in books. So, with this, it was that we were accurate about perinatal OCD," the British scribe told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
Vaughan, who also penned the bestseller Anatomy of a Scandal, said she experienced this psychological condition in real life after the birth of her second child.
"It's the reason that [main character] Jess has these gas-lighting thoughts, these intrusive thoughts and it's the reason she doubts herself, and lets herself unravel, that she unravels as a mother and that she can't give a straight answer," the writer explained.
"She can't trust her own thought process and it was something that I knew could have been conveyed in a very sensational way," she added. "But it was really important that we didn't over-sensationalize something that is sufficiently scary in itself."
