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Sarah Hilary is an English crime novelist known for her Marnie Rome series of novels. She won the Fish Criminally Short Histories Prize[1] in 2008 for her story, Fall River, in August 1892.[2] In 2012, she was awarded with the Cheshire Prize for Literature.[3]
Early life and education
Hilary was born in Cheshire,[4]England and later moved to the South East to study for a First Class Honours Degree in History of Ideas. Hilary announced on X in June 18, 2022 that she is autistic.[5]
Her second book, No Other Darkness, was shortlisted for a Barry Award.[10]
Sarah Hilary's grandparents and mother in a Japanese prison camp in Borneo, 1944
Hilary has written about her family history, most notably in "My Mother was Emperor Hirohito's Poster Child" for The Guardian, March 2014. Her mother and grandparents were prisoners of the Japanese in Batu Lintang camp where her grandfather, Stanley George Hill, died in 1945.[11] Hilary wrote about her grandmother's experience in the camp for the Dangerous Women Project in 2017.[12]
Her seventh novel, Fragile, published on 10 June 2021, is partly inspired by the motives of Daphne du Maurier'sRebecca.[13]
In 2023, she published Black Thorn, a crime novel centred around six deaths at a seaside housing development in Cornwall.[14] It received a positive review from Laura Wilson of The Guardian, who praised Hilary's writing style.[15]
