In Episode 40 of Literary Prospects, we talk with author Sarah Easter Collins about her debut literary thriller, Things Don’t Break On Their Own.
Sarah is a writer and artist who grew up in Kent, England, and studied at Exeter University before moving to Botswana and later Thailand and Malawi, where she taught art. Sarah now lives on Exmoor with her husband and two dogs. She is mother to a wonderful son, a graduate of the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course and she holds a diploma in creative writing from Oxford University. Things Don’t Break on Their Own is her first novel.
In this interview, Sarah talks about how she plays with the expectations of clued-up thriller readers, the ways in which her work as a painter informs her writing, her inspiring road to publication, and much more…