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Sarah Holding

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Sarah Holding is a full-time children's and YA author based in the UK and Japan.

Sarah's latest offering 'Road to True North', a YA novel about an ill-fated roadtrip around Iceland, comes out in September 2025.

Her fictional debut 'SeaBEAN', a best-selling time travel adventure trilogy, is regarded as a leading 'cli-fi' text, and is being taught in primary schools across the UK and around the world.

'CHAMELEON', her first YA novel published in 2020, is set during the fall of Atlantis.

Sarah's first collection of poems, 'How to Write a Poem', which was written during lockdown, came out in 2021.

Her second YA novel 'blackloop', an edgy coming-of-age sci-fi romance, came out in 2023.

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Average rating: 4.37 · 95 ratings · 42 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	SeaBEAN (SeaBEAN Trilogy #1) 3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Road to True North 4.88 avg rating — 17 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
	blackloop 4.82 avg rating — 11 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
	CHAMELEON 4.33 avg rating — 12 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
	SeaWAR (SeaBEAN Trilogy #2) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	SeaRISE (SeaBEAN Trilogy #3) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	The SeaBEAN Trilogy 4.75 avg rating — 4 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
	How to Write a Poem it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2021	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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My new YA novel, Road to True North, comes out in less than a month, and I’m excited to see a trickle of reviews coming in now from my advance readers and reviewers, who seem to be saying it’s hitting the mark as an emotionally satisfying read! Next week I’m flying to Iceland to get some publicity shots, and return to some of the places that inspired particular scenes in the novel. Check my social Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 13, 2025 08:54 • Tags: addiction, coming-of-age, first-love, iceland, mental-illness, new-adult, roadtrip, ya

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