Sally Keeble

Sally's new novel, "Freeborn Girls," has received high praise from readers. It tells the story of two women determined to find their own path to freedom. Two women, separated by 400 years of history, linked by a twist of fate.

"Freeborn Girls" draws from Sally's lived experience as a political activist and Member of Parliament. And it follows the success of her debut novel, "She, You, I," hailed as "a book of our time."

Sally writes about the things she’s passionate about—the triumphs and tragedies of people’s lives. It’s what originally took her into journalism and then politics, in the UK and beyond. She spent her early years in the USA, Switzerland and Australia, returning to the UK after working as a journalist in South Africa. After serving as an MP and government minister in the UK, she worked in international development and travels widely, especially in Asia and Africa.

Now she mostly splits her time between Northampton and Bawdsey, a village in coastal Suffolk.