Saskia Sarginson

I spent my childhood in a cottage in the middle of a Suffolk pine forest, where my two younger siblings and I had the freedom to roam the forest alone. This experience helped inspire my best-selling debut novel, The Twins, a Richard and Judy pick. My other books are: Without You, The Other Me, The Stranger, How It Ends, The Bench, The Central Line and Seven Months of Summer. My latest novels are psychological suspense with a house theme: Identical, One Dark Summer, and What Happened at Number 13, currently number one in Noir Fiction. I love it when the house becomes a character in its own right. My sister recently asked me what it's like living with such dark ideas in my head - I actually find it quite cathartic, although there's a limit as to where I let my imagination take me! My books have been translated into 15 languages. It's exciting to think of them being read all over the world. When I was little I wanted to be a zoologist, but as I'm no good at science subjects, I've been a Guardian columnist, a journalist on women’s magazines, and a script reader instead. Writing novels is my favourite job. When I'm not writing, I dance tango, make (and eat) cakes, walk the dog, and discuss plot points with my husband.