Can you tell us about your new YA book, Where the Light Goes? But my debut Beautiful Broken Things and its follow up Fierce Fragile Hearts have my whole heart. Destination Anywhere was nominated for a German award, so I got to have a trip over there and meet my German publishing team, so that was also very special. They all do, for different reasons! Goodbye, Perfect won the YA Book Prize, so that is very special. Sometimes people send me songs that make them think of one of my characters - usually Suzanne! - and that is my favourite thing.Ģ. When you have a character who is close to your heart, and then someone comes to you and excitedly tells you how much they mean to them as if they are as real to them as they are to you, that's very special. My highlights are the books themselves, their characters and their readers. I love exploring emotions and trauma through fiction - in a lot of ways, I think it's how we find the most truth. I enjoy writing emotion-led character stories set in the real world. I used to write stories by hand and on our family Amstrad computer. I've been writing for as long as I can remember! My dad was a copywriter when I was growing up, so seeing someone writing was very normal for me. Can you tell us about you as an author, and what have been your highlight moments in your career? Here, Sara Barnard discusses why she wanted to explore grief and suicide in this novel, and to shine a light on fame and the toll it can take, particularly on young women.ĥ* Review: 'I highly recommend this book for teenagers as so much can relate to life as a young person living in today's modern world. Her novel follows Emmy, who has lost her famous sister to suicide, and explores what happens to those left behind after her death. In Where the Light Goes, award-winning author Sara Barnard explores grief, toxic fame, and the real lives that lie behind the lens of social media.
You can find Sara Barnard on Twitter / Instagram the Light Goes (Walker Books) After many re-writes, that story became Beautiful Broken Things which was published by Macmillan Children's Books. Sara had written 'countless stories' by the age of 13, the same year that she wrote a story about a girl. Sara graduated in 2010 and became a content writer at an international online healthcare company in London - but what she had always wanted do was to be a writer. Sara Barnard's Where the Light Goes is a powerful YA novel exploring grief, toxic fame and social media.
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