Sarah Ridout

Sarah Ridout has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University College Dublin, where she also contributed to the anthology New Tricks With Matches. Over the past eleven years she has lived in four countries with her husband and two children, including eight years surrounded by the vineyards and chateaus of southern France, which seeded the idea for her first novel. Le Chateau was selected to participate in the Queensland Writers Centre/Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program before it was acquired by Echo Publishing. Sarah is currently based in Brisbane.