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Sara Collins


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Sara Collins studied law at the London School of Economics and worked as a lawyer for seventeen years. She has always wanted to write but only recently decided it was time to stop wanting to do it and just do it. She is a final year student for the Master of Studies in Creative Writing at Cambridge University, where she was the recipient of the 2015 Michael Holroyd Prize for Re-creative Writing. Her work has been shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Award and published in The Caribbean Writer as well as being shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Prize in 2016.Her debut novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton was pre-empted by Viking UK on the eve of a major UK auction. It was also pre-empted by HarperCollins US and Canada, and sold to auction in Germany and at pre-empt to Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands. It has also now been sold in Sweden and Poland. It will be a lead title in the US and UK in 2019.
 

Awards: Costa (2019)  see all

Genres: Historical Mystery
 
Novels
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Collections
   The Haunting Season (2021) (with others)
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Awards
2019 Costa Book Award for Best First Novel : The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Award nominations
2020 HWA Debut Crown Award (shortlist) : The Confessions of Frannie Langton
2020 British Book Award Debut Book of the Year (shortlist) : The Confessions of Frannie Langton


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There's Nothing Wrong with Her (2024)
Kate Weinberg
"A really wonderful piece of work: so fresh . . . So excellently written . . . I love the way it encompasses SO many things: a whole life - sorrows, damage, hopes - but then has them interacting so interestingly with the present, like two thick paint colors slowly mixing in front of your eyes."
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The List (2023)
Yomi Adegoke
"Cleverly constructed, utterly compelling, immersive, and addictive. The List is the literary equivalent of 'water cooler television'. I was hooked from the first page."
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The Half Moon (2023)
Mary Beth Keane
"I fell in love with The Half Moon from the first page, and barely looked up until I'd finished. Mary Beth Keane has written another brilliantly absorbing novel about complicated marriages and family dynamics - how they shape us, yes, but how they undo us as well. Prepare to lose yourself in this book."

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