Sarah Woodhouse
British writer
Sarah Woodhouse (born 1950 in Birmingham, England) is a British writer. In 1989, her novel The Peacock's Feather was awarded the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Biography
Woodhouse was born in 1950 in Birmingham, England, UK. She grew up in Cambridgeshire and attended St Mary's convent school, before studying for a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at Reading University. In the mid-1970s, she moved to Norfolk and began to work on longer fiction, which culminated – in 1984 – with the publication of A Season of Mists, her first novel.
Woodhouse is the author of numerous short-stories, many of which were published in 19 magazine in the 1970s, and 9 novels, published between 1984 and 2000.
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