Most of the time, she's part of the Training Team at Staffordshire North and Stoke-on-Trent Citizens Advice Bureau. Or a gardener. And occasionally she even gets paid for being a photographer.
She paints 'Roses and Castles' canalware too.
When she writes, she writes contemporary fiction in a genre nick-named 'welfare rights lit' by her work colleagues. Her first two novels, about middle-aged disabled couple Lyn and Tery Walker and what happened when they were accused of benefit fraud, were set in an unnamed town near Southampton strikingly similar to the one she grew up in but, sadly, the Solent Welfare Rights Project from her books isn't a real advice centre.
She's working on more adventures for her Hampshire-based characers, but also has plans for her Potteries-based narrowboating heroine Daphne Randall.
Sarah married Jon Honeysett in 1991 and gained two excellent (and now grown up) step-children as a result, as well as a very special husband.
I just want to say that Sarah, and her wonderful husband Jon, used to be my neighbours, and were very kind to me, and my then husband, when I was suffering from severe depression. I now want to say a big thank you for your help and kindness, it meant a lot to me, despite the fact that the only person who could sort myself out was in fact myself, and I did. I'm now happily living in Cornwall with a lovely man, running my own business. xx
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