The Friendship Tree

Sarah Martin is an Australian writer whose work spans children's picture books, young adult fiction, contemporary literary fiction, biography, history and short stories. She always wanted to be a writer, but it took a series of extraordinary events to jumpstart her career as a writer after twenty years as a secondary school teacher and ten as a fundraiser.She writes with clarity, restraint and emotional depth, drawing on both scholarship and lived experience. Her writing reflects a long-standing fascination with family connections, the natural environment and travel. She is drawn to small turning points; the quiet decisions and recognitions that alter the course of a life.She and her retired architect husband live in Melbourne. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.