Sarah Lawton

Starting a blog, as debut author Sarah Lawton, from East London discovered, can lead on to other things. In her case it was deciding that what she really wanted to do was write books. That in turn led to her first book All the Little Things being published by Canelo in April.

‘I’ve been writing full-time for the last eighteen months,’ she explains. ‘Before that I was working in the charity sector. Then, when my son started school I set up a blog to occupy my time. That’s when realisation hit