Sarah was born in Surrey and grew up in Berkshire. She went to the Abbey School in Reading and then went on to read Law at Southampton University. She always planned to move back to Berkshire once she’d graduated but actually, she didn’t want to leave beautiful Hampshire.

She’s been writing fiction for more than 30 years – she was one of those children with a torch under the bedclothes scribbling away at her various stories on a notepad. They usually involved horses because she was mad about them as a child.

She was always top of her English class – which was good because her science and maths abilities severely let her down. To this day she still counts on her fingers.

As she grew, so did her writing and she wrote a ‘book’ when she was sixteen. It took her the whole of the summer holidays c.1998. She has no idea what it was about other than it was based on novels by the fabulous Barbara Erskine, so it would probably have included some 500 year old ghosts running about the place.

After graduation she surprised herself by instead of going into a proper job earning money, she very quickly decided that she wanted to be a writer. So, she started out doing bits of content here and there before setting up her own copywriting business, Sarah-Jayne

Communications. She focused on the business for a while before deciding that she was going to write the story that had been germinating in her brain for years. And so, THE ART OF DECEPTION was born. She also writes a relatively popular blog at soverysarah.co.uk.

Outside of writing she has three daughters, a horse, four cats, a dog and a husband and lives in a small but picturesque village in the Hampshire countryside. When she’s not riding, or walking her very enthusiastic spaniel named Polo, she loves to socialise. Especially if it

happens to be whilst she has a glass of wine in her hand.