Sarah won the Waterstone’s Book of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award. She has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has a PhD in Creative Writing. Her latest novel, Enlightenment, an unforgettable story of love, faith and astronomy, was published earlier this year.