Jane Sanderson

Jane Sanderson is a bestselling historical fiction novelist from South Yorkshire. She was brought up in the small mining town of Hoyland and remembers living out her early years in a small terraced house with an outhouse and a tin bathtub. The family moved to a brand new bungalow when she was six years old and she then got to enjoy all modern conveniences. However, the years spent living in that run-down house early on greatly influenced her writing. She went to the local primary school alongside her sister Jackie before they proceeded to the Kirk Balk, a comprehensive school. Her schooling was a mixed bag of experiences but it was where she was first encouraged to hone her creative writing skills by Mr. Farrimond, then her English teacher. After graduating from high school, Sanderson went on to study English at Leicester University. While still in high school she had decided that she wanted to pursue a career in journalism and dreamt of working for “The Times” or “The Guardian.” Once she graduated, she found work with “Hardware Trade Journal,” an unglamorous trade magazine though it provided her with the foundation she needed in the field. Jane would then work for an Oxford paper before moving to London to work with “Hampstead and Highgate Express.” She then got a job with the BBC as a radio producer of the program “Woman’s Hour” and “The World at One.”