Sarah and After: the matriarchs is a 1975 collection of short stories aimed at older juvenile readers, written by Lynne Reid Banks.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph Banks noted that she gave the women more modern sensibilities as she wanted to make it easier for her intended readers, teenage girls, to identify with and understand what it was like to be a woman in biblical times.

[2] The men and women in the stories are emphasized as "people of passion and fallibility", which Zena Sutherland wrote was shown through the motivations and justifications the characters give to themselves.

[6] Critical reception for the collection was favorable,[7] with journalists for The Birmingham Post and Herald Express praising Banks for her portrayal of the Biblical women.

[8][9] Sutherland, in a review for the Chicago Tribune, wrote that "the fiction adheres rather closely; what Banks adds can deepen the reader's understanding of the women as people.