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Sara Madderson

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I like to change things up! I spent my 20s as a banker and my 30s bringing up small children and running my own fashion brand (Madderson London).

Now, aged 43, I find myself writing, and I wonder why I didn’t do it sooner.

I’ve always loved writing. My daughter Tilly has an old notebook of mine filled with half-finished stories and accompanying drawings. I’ve read for as long as I can remember, guzzling up books so quickly that my mum always protested that I couldn’t be reading them properly. You can see my original, dog-eared version of A Little Princess in my photo. Its protagonist, Sara Crewe, is one of my all-time favourite heroines (alongside Anne Shirley, naturally).

I published my first book, Metamorphosis, in February 2020, right befor ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 20,385 ratings · 1,963 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Manny for Christmas 4.13 avg rating — 1,235 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parents and Teachers: The Only Ones Behaving Are the Kids (Love in London #0) 3.79 avg rating — 399 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Food for Thought: Her Husband is Gay. She's Going to Need Carbs. 4.06 avg rating — 281 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heaven on Earth (Sorrel Farm, #2) 4.21 avg rating — 183 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Make Me Sweat 4.18 avg rating — 182 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Winter’s Fail 4.10 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in London: The Complete Boxset (Love in London #1-5) 4.54 avg rating — 110 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sorrel Farm: Books 1-2 4.07 avg rating — 42 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Then Becomes Now (Sorrel Farm #3) 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Some Colour on Food for Thought

Food for Thought was my first novel, and if you’d asked me two months before I started writing it, I would have told you definitively that I did not have a novel in me. I’d written a self-help book, and wrote almost exclusively non-fiction, and only allowed myself to read fiction when I was on a sun lounger.

Fast forward to lock-down, where the self-help went out the window and I found myself eati

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Nine Sapiens: Biology and Evolution of Personality Types: Or how a hunter-gatherer impacted Wall Street

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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays

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“There are people in this life who are takers by nature, and that makes them drains, and those are the ones we avoid, hmm? But there are also truly good, wonderful people who have so much to give when they’re in a good place, but who may end up draining us all the same when they’re struggling, without either party being remotely aware of it.”
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“I’d give anything,’ he says, ‘to take you home with me and curl myself around you all night.”
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“Because as soon as Zach’s girls saw the logo and identified me as a fellow Swiftie, we were instant besties.”
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“Nobody gets to tell you what to believe. Nobody gets to own your mind, your heart or your body. You own them. You get to decide.”
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