Sarah Connell

From seven to seventy, there is a line only I can see. From the child who sat in the library, too shy and unconfident to admit to the questioner that she wanted to be a writer, the line stretches to my seventieth birthday celebration. I won the Cinnamon Press Debut Novel prize 2017 with 'Whenever' - to my real surprise. The novel was launched to coincide with my 70th Birthday party. What connects those events is a full family and working life, when the notebooks filled up, ideas were dreamed of and lost, drafts abandoned, and I never admitted that I was always writing.

Now my second novel 'Random Three' is on the shelves.

My third novel 'Where Are You Now?' will be available to order from April 28. It is the story of a friendship between Walter, a grieving widower and Osama, an asylum seeker on the run from the authorities. It was longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Prize for 'women writers of literary merit and 'unputdownability'.'