What people are saying about Sarah Harrison

  • A nice dry, wry style … you who have tears to shed, prepare to shed them now

    Northern Echo

  • Harrison shows herself to be more than equal to the complexities of her plot … impeccable timing.

    The Times

  • Highly comical … highly entertaining

    Jersey Evening Post

  • A lovely, uplifting, gentle read that is both captivating and charming.

    The Red Dress – Booklist

  • Written with Sarah Harrison’s usual verve, this story offers new insights into the dangers of a mother’s overdependence, and the absolute necessity of letting go.

    Good Housekeeping

  • A delightful, funny, painful, sad tale … a real treat.

    Rose Petal Soup – Booklist

Books

All my books are listed here – you’ll see I’ve used my own style of classification based on chatting to readers over the years. Use the links in the sidebar or click the items below to find out more about my books.

If a book’s out of print you’ll be able to find it in your local library, or on Amazon using the links provided.

Foreign Parts

The third and last of the Harriet Blair books is set in France, a clogs-and-shawls romance complete with stroppy mine-owners and spirited women at the pithead.

How to Write a Blockbuster

Acknowledging that if there were rules for writing blockbusters everyone would be doing it, I set out to cover all aspects of producing a BIG book – from inspiration to successful promotion, not overlooking the tricky psychological side of it.

In Granny’s Garden

A story in verse about a small boy who encounters a dinosaur in his grandmother’s garden, illustrated by Mike Wilks.

Laura and the Squire

One of the big bestsellers of the nineteen eighties was The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, and Hutchinson followed this with The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford in the same decorative style, based on the memoir by Flora Thompson.

Laura and Edmund

One of the big bestsellers of the nineteen eighties was The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, and Hutchinson followed this with The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford in the same decorative style, based on the memoir by Flora Thompson.