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Sarra Manning is a writer from England. She attended the University of Sussex and took up an English with Media Studies degree. She became a freelance writer after submitting her work to Melody Maker. She worked as the entertainment editor for five years of the now-defunct teen magazine J-17. Manning was the editor of Elle Girl (UK edition), then re-launched What To Wear magazine and has worked on UK magazines such as Bliss and The Face. She's contributed to ELLE, Seventeen, The Guardian and Details and now is a contributing editor to ELLE UK and writes regularly for "Grazia", Red Magazine and "The Sunday Telegraph Stella Magazine" too, as well as consulting for a number of British magazine publishers. She has been dubbed the "teen queen extraordinaire" but her first adult novel, "Unsticky" was published by Headline in 2009.
 

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance
 
New Books
November 2023

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The Man of Her Dreams
 
Series
Diary of a Crush
   0.5. Diary of a Grace (2013)
   1. French Kiss (2004)
   2. Kiss and Make Up (2004)
   3. Sealed with a Kiss (2004)
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Fashionistas
   1. Laura (2007)
   2. Hadley (2007)
   3. Irina (2008)
   4. Candy (2008)
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Novels
   Love Money (1998)
   Guitar Girl (2003)
   Pretty Things (2005)
   Let's Get Lost (2006)
   Unsticky (2009)
   Nobody's Girl (2010)
   You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (2011)
   Nine Uses For An Ex Boyfriend (2012)
   Adorkable (2012)
   It Felt Like a Kiss (2014)
   The Worst Girlfriend in the World (2014)
   After the Last Dance (2015)
   London Belongs to Us (2016)
   The House of Secrets (2017)
   The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp (2018)
   Rescue Me (2021)
   London, With Love (2022)
   The Man of Her Dreams (2023)
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Non fiction
   Girl.Net (2001)
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