Sarah Harrison (born 1946) is an English novelist and children's writer.
She has written successful novels and children's books, and also a writers' guide: How to Write a Blockbuster.
Born in Exeter, Sarah Harrison is the second of three children of an army officer and a former actress, and a cousin of the novelist Celia Dale.
The family spent time during her childhood in Berlin, Singapore, Malaya, then Germany again, before she was sent to boarding school at the age of nine.
[1] She took an English degree at the University of London and then worked for four years on the magazine Woman's Own, before becoming a freelance writer.