Sally Emerson is an award-winning novelist who is publishing 'Perfect, Stories of the Impossible', her first short story collection through Quadrant Books, in June 2022. In the stories everything seems ordinary enough until something extraordinary begins to happen and takes the reader nowhere expected. Sally has published six novels, all of which were reissued as classics in 2021 by Quadrant Books to critical and commercial acclaim. Of these, the bestselling 'Fire Child' and 'Heat' are dark love stories, while 'Separation' published in the States as 'Hush Little Baby' has been called a domestic thriller but is about the deep, sometimes dangerous, love between children and their parents. In all her novels danger is not far away, and the sex and love are part of that danger. Helen Dunmore wrote 'Welcome back to these dark, gripping and timeless novels' and Kate Saunders called them 'extraordinary and original'.Sally was brought up in London, lived in the States for a while, went to Oxford university and edited magazines including the literary magazine 'Books and Bookmen'. She has written fiction all her life, and a faded collection her mother gave her as a child, 'Great Short Stories of the World' is still one of her favourite books. She likes the playfulness of short stories; the way they grab the reader and tease the reader in such a short space.She writes on travel for 'The Sunday Times' and 'The Times', favouring places that challenge, and lives in north west London. Her three anthologies about birth, love and death ("New Life", 'Be Mine', 'In Loving Memory'), bring together the greatest writing on the subjects to comfort and inspire and amuse.Her stories, like her novels, are mischievous and transgressive; they have been compared to the work of Roald Dahl and Shirley Jackson.
