Sara was born in Manchester and spent her earliest years in Stockport before relocating to an island off the west coast of Canada with her family. She returned to England to join the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia and now lives in Norwich. Her short fiction has been published in various literary magazines and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize.

'In village on the edge of a wood - once the site of a witch trial and now being torn down to make way for housing - a community is forced to reckon with its indebtedness to the landscape. Hesket is a moving and accomplished debut which describes how we are shaped by our ecology and haunted by the changes we have wrought on it'

Sara was born in Manchester and spent her earliest years in Stockport before relocating to an island off the west coast of Canada with her family. She returned to England to join the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia and now lives in Norwich. Her short fiction has been published in various literary magazines and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize.

'In village on the edge of a wood - once the site of a witch trial and now being torn down to make way for housing - a community is forced to reckon with its indebtedness to the landscape. Hesket is a moving and accomplished debut which describes how we are shaped by our ecology and haunted by the changes we have wrought on it'

Sara was born in Manchester and spent her earliest years in Stockport before relocating to an island off the west coast of Canada with her family. She returned to England to join the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia and now lives in Norwich. Her short fiction has been published in various literary magazines and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize.

'In village on the edge of a wood - once the site of a witch trial and now being torn down to make way for housing - a community is forced to reckon with its indebtedness to the landscape. Hesket is a moving and accomplished debut which describes how we are shaped by our ecology and haunted by the changes we have wrought on it'