Born and brought up in World's End,[3] a district in Chelsea, Sadie Jones was educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School, and Bath Technical College.
[4] After leaving school, Jones worked in video production and as a waitress,[5] and travelled, before moving to Paris, France, where she wrote the first of four unproduced scripts and a play,[6] among other things, before her debut novel, The Outcast,[7] was published in 2008.
Writing in UK newspaper The Guardian, Julia Raeside said: "Sadie Jones risked smashing a perfect thing when she signed up to adapt her book The Outcast (BBC1, Sunday) for television.
The tone set by Iain Softley’s beautifully restrained direction and the careful use of music creates a real feeling of loss from the start, just as in the book, but he somehow avoids all hammy visual foreshadowing and narrative signposting, so often used to gee a plot along.
Set in the fading grandeur of an Edwardian country house, it is a darkly humorous, unsettling and ghostly tale, ("...a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class...a brilliant novel").