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Sara Wood | |
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Born | 1941 (age 83–84) England, UK |
Pen name | Sara Wood |
Occupation | Novelist |
Period | 1986–2004 |
Genre | Romantic novel |
Spouse | 2 |
Children | 2 |
Sara Wood (b. 1941 [1] in England) was a popular British writer of 49 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1986 to 2004. [2]
Sara Wood was born in 1941 in the south of England. Her family were poor. [3] She trained as a secretary but married at 21. [3] She and her husband had two sons. [3] The marriage did not last, and after divorcing, she trained as a teacher. [3] She married again. [3] After seeing the romantic novelist Charlotte Lamb interviewed on television, she decided to become a novelist herself. [3] "But she'd rarely read fiction before, so she bought 20 books, analyzed them carefully, then wrote one of her own. Amazingly, it was accepted and she began writing full time." [3] Wood lives in Sussex. [3]