Sarah Vaughan read English at Oxford and went on to be a journalist. After training with the Press Association, she spent eleven years at the Guardian as a news reporter, health correspondent and political correspondent. When her second child started school, she finally did what she had always wanted to do: she started writing a novel. The Art of Baking Blind is the result and is published by Hodder (UK), St Martin's Press (US), and translated into nine languages. She lives with her family near Cambridge and is now working on her second novel.