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Writing workshops in my Brighton home – The half-day creative writing workshop has garnered 5* reviews on AirBnB from every one who has attended so far. Read more…
A new small press, Creative Pumpkin Publishing for non-fiction – CPP will take Sarah’s self-published books to a wider readership, and publish books by other authors under the same imprint …read more
The story of Making Friends with Anxiety – It’s not a long book, or particularly fancy. The subject matter is hardly glamorous. Yet it’s Sarah’s second-bestselling book. Discover why … read more
One Moment wins Silver Bestseller Award – With UK sales of over 250,000, One Moment, One Morning is officially one of the 21st century’s bestselling books, and was awarded Silver at the Specsavers/Nielsen ceremony last month …read more
Introducing Making Peace with Depression – A warm and wise companion for sufferers of depression, co-written by bestselling author Kate Harrison and Dr Patrick Fitzgerald …read more
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Sometimes, seeing people seems to take enormous am
Sometimes, seeing people seems to take enormous amounts of organising and making dates weeks ahead, just to Zoom for 15 minutes, or meet in London which takes two hours each way. I write this, even though often I’m Mrs Organiser of the whole damn shebang. I know some things have to be organised - birthdays, book group discussions etc - but this - a meeting with an old friend I’ve not seen in over five+ years, went from picture of her swimming in Brighton looking chilly and being brave to ‘are you here now?’ to ‘fancy meeting for a drink?’ to ‘see you in 20 minutes’ in the time it’s taken me to post this - and Lordy do I like that way of operating. ‘Ooh, it’s sunny, fancy a walk?’ ‘Hey, I hear the new Bond is actually fun, fancy going to the early show?’ That sort of thing. If there’s one thing Covid killed it was spontaneity and I’d like to reclaim it, at least until soaring infections snatch it away.

‘Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her inf
‘Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.’

Sunset from three miles outside Brighton, which lo
Sunset from three miles outside Brighton, which looks pretty much like most sunsets, but is much appreciated as we’ve escaped a hellish amount of noise about our home. And breathe…

Introducing Joley, our latest Airbnb guest who’s
Introducing Joley, our latest Airbnb guest who’s with us three weeks. She’s 18, born in Brighton, raised in Brooklyn and is fast-thinking and wise-cracking, more-or-less vegan and totally my kinda gal. I love it when life throws kindred spirits like this my way. I’m helping her settle back into Brighton to start a degree which means playing a bit of a mummy-role, and she has christened herself ‘rent-a-daughter’ as the relationship is beautifully symbiotic. Her bedroom is in chaos, (god knows how she can move in there) but she loves cats and is bringing a great energy into our little home. Isn’t she gorge? #madeinbrighton #girlpower #millennials #airbnbsuperhost #mothersanddaughters #ilovenewyork #kindredspirits

The house we grew up in. 40
Halford Road in Richmo
The house we grew up in. 40 Halford Road in Richmond as it is now, still with the graveyard behind where we used to shriek and jump on gravestones. Sometimes we’d get told off and my mother said ‘tell them your mummy says when she’s dead she hopes children play on her grave’. And here’s the sign where we posed in 1980, all full of punk chutzpah and teen energy. yesterday was quite some trip down memory lane.

Road trip.❤️🥰 Heading up to SW London to ch
Road trip.❤️🥰 Heading up to SW London to check up on my flat and thank my tenants for being so brilliant during the pandemic.

Toot toot!
Toot toot!

In the Shakespeare’s Head with great mate Hattie
In the Shakespeare’s Head with great mate Hattie, making ourselves cry with laughter at how like ‘Call My Agent’ our lives are right now. I’m in serious doubt as to whether anyone could make this sort of shit up. We also realised it’s a year since I published Mum’s memoir and Hat did the cover. Both our mums illustrated children’s books and in the week #jillmurphy died it seems fitting we met as Mum and Jill were also great friends. Quite some 12 months, eh? @sherbetfountain @albafesteinsta #lol #maryrayner @jilltattersallartist #author/illustrator #callmyagent #siblingrivalry #foreignrights #jillmurphychildrensbooks


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