About

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Sarah Darmody dislikes writing about herself in the third person so her mate is doing it instead.

Sarah is the prize-winning author of the novel Ticket to Ride – Lost and Found in America (Random House, 2005). She has worked as a journalist and film critic in the USA, and in the film industry in New York.  Sarah returned home to write a book called Film: It’s a Contact Sport (New Holland, 2002), and later contributed to the travel story collection Take Me With You (Random House, 2005).  Sarah has worked in publishing for Penguin Australia, and for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.  Sarah is an ambassador for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, and underwent a prophylactic double mastectomy in 2007 at the age of 29. Most recently, she edited the book Thanks for the Mammaries (Penguin 2009).

Sarah thinks she’s young and cool but check it out: she loves gardening, cats, pots of tea, gossiping with neighbours, strolling the streets to ponder other people’s front gardens, doing the laundry, sewing, beading, collecting vintage buttons, baking and sitting in a quiet place to read.  Cool? Word to your Nana.

When she is reading her tastes range with enthusiasm across all genres, but she particularly likes literary fiction, high fantasy, crime and historical fiction.

Sarah currently lives in Abu Dhabi where she is writing a novel, feeding the street cats, and driving the Boy crazy.