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Sarah Martin (Meldrum, 1965)
Tuesday, 6 September 2022
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Congratulations to Sarah Martin, who has just released her latest novel, that is currently available to our students in the school library! When Sarah started to write about the second most endangered butterfly in the world, she didn’t expect it to turn into a novel. But that’s what happened! ‘Azita and Me’ became the story of the friendship between twelve year old Holly, daughter of same sex parents, and Azita, an Iranian refugee, who meet just after the start of Year 7. Narrated by Holly, it’s a captivating and insightful account of Holly’s journey towards independence and self-belief that resonates for the age group as well as for adults. Sarah’s own journey towards novel writing has progressed from writing a biography, two histories and a children’s picture book, and she plans to continue writing novels, because it’s 'such an exciting and totally unpredictable adventure where anything can happen because the characters 'take over.’ The novel is set in an imaginary town in Queensland, but features Lauriston’s Moreton Bay Fig tree ( ‘the whistle tree’ for Sarah and her contemporaries). It is now available at Booktopia, Amazon and local bookstores. |