Sara Bayat

Sara Bayat

In conversation with Sarah Mitchell

Sara was born in Manchester and spent her earliest years in Stockport before relocating to an island off the west coast of Canada with her family. She returned to England to join the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia and now lives in Norwich. Her short fiction has been published in various literary magazines and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize. 

Hesket: A Norfolk Haunting, is her debut novel, weaving a tapestry of a small village community in which each character has their own story to tell. With close observation of the natural world, the book describes how we are shaped by our ecology and haunted by the changes we have imposed on it.