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SARAH FRANKLIN
Agent: Juliet Pickering
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Sarah Franklin grew up in rural Gloucestershire and now lives with her family between Oxford and London. She has written for the Guardian, Psychologies magazine, The Pool, the Sunday Express and the Seattle Times. Her creative non-fiction has been published in anthologies in the USA and appeared on radio affiliates there.
Sarah is founder and host of popular Oxford literary night, Short Stories Aloud, a Senior Lecturer at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, and a judge for the Costa Short Story Award. She was awarded a mentorship under the Jerwood/Arvon scheme to work on her debut novel, SHELTER, published by Bonnier Zaffre in July 2017.
HOW TO BELONG
Fiction, 368 pages
Bonnier Zaffre, 2020
How can home be found, when you are lost?
When two very different women find themselves sharing a home, they must confront their pasts in order to work out who they each are, and how they will survive.
Disillusioned with her high-flying London career, Jo has returned to the remote rural community of her childhood. Taking over her parents' beloved butcher shop, she works hard to save the family legacy, hoping to
also save herself.
Tessa has returned too, fleeing a chance of happiness to come to terms with a life filled with secrets and shame. Now her livelihood as a farrier is under threat from a mysterious and debilitating condition.
How to Belong is a delicate, honest portrayal of unexpected friendship, the power of memory and what it truly
means to come home.
SHELTER
Fiction, 400pgs
Bonnier Zaffre, 2017
Connie Granger has found work in the Women's Timber Corps, and for her, this remote community must serve a secret purpose. Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. Their meeting signals new beginnings. In each other they find the means to imagine their own lives anew, and to face that which each fears the most.