Never mind the “X Factor”,
Sarah Wray has just won “The Wow Factor”, a competition held by Waterstones and
Faber to discover new writers for children. More than 3,500 writers entered the
competition, which Sarah Wray won with a novel entitled “The Forbidden
Room”. Sarah Wray (36) is a mother of three children who lives in Belfast,
although she originally came from Merseyside. She moved to Belfast in 1988 to
read Genetics at Queen’s University, and she has lived in the city ever since.
Some of her studies have made their way into her fiction, since “The Forbidden
Room” features illegal gene therapy. Sarah Wray began writing seriously 6 years
ago, and as a result, she has written a total of 6 books, of which “The
Forbidden Room” will be the first to be published. Sarah Wray has previously
worked at a supermarket checkout, as a medical researcher, as a childminder,
and she has also taught science. She is currently the manager of a toddlers
group. The publication of “The Forbidden Room” will be the culmination of a
lifetime’s ambition to be a writer, and since the novel will be heavily
promoted by Waterstones, we have no doubt that it will be a big seller. “This
Morning” presenters Fern Britton and Phillip Schofield were amongst the “Wow
Factor” judges.
She may be
the new JK Rowling and she’s from Belfast – how “The Belfast Telegraph”
reported the story
Book
deal for spare-time writer – the same story as reported by “The Guardian”
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