Sarah Harrison (novelist)
Sarah Harrison (born 1946) is an English novelist and children's writer. She has written successful novels and children's books, and also a writers' guide: "How to Write a Blockbuster". Family and life. Born in Exeter, Sarah Harrison is the second of three children of an army officer and a former actress, and a cousin of the novelist Celia Dale. The family spent time during her childhood in Berlin, Singapore, Malaya, then Germany again, before she was sent to boarding school at the age of nine. She took an English degree at the University of London  and then worked for four years on the magazine "Woman's Own", before becoming a freelance writer. Harrison married for a second time in 2003. She has three grown-up children and six grandchildren. She is President of Morden and District Writers' Circle and a member of the Morden Players drama group, both based in Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, where she lives.