Sarah Ann Juckes writes books for young people. Her YA debut Outside (Penguin) was nominated for the Carnegie Medal Award 2020, shortlisted for Mslexia’s Children’s Novel Award, and longlisted for the Bath Novel Award. Her second YA novel, The World Between Us was published in March 2021.
The Hunt for the Nightingale (Simon & Schuster) was Sarah’s first Middle Grade novel and was published in eight languages. Her second, The Night Animals, was a Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month and awarded The Times Children’s Book of the Week.
Sarah was born and raised in Leicester, but now lives opposite a graveyard on the edge of the Cotswolds in Oxfordshire.