I was born on Hayling Island, Hampshire. My father was an architect and my mother a teacher. I was the middle one of five children, and when I wasn’t babysitting the younger ones or trying to dodge the older two I spent many hours playing in the fields that surrounded our house, and on the muddy north shore.
When I was 18 I went to Goldsmiths, London, where I studied education and drama. It was there I met Phill, my husband, and we have been together ever since.
Phill is from the north of England. When we met I had never been north of London. We began our married life working in London but over the years we gradually drifted north. I don’t think it was a deliberate plan on Phill’s part, but we ended up in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, where Phill was born and brought up. I fell in love with the landscape, and it was there I wrote ‘Flora’ and ‘Grass’.
Before that, I had written several books on the education of young children. These are published by Bloomsbury and can be found on their website - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/sally-featherstone/.
I now live in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, where I continue to write, draw, and walk in the Derbyshire Dales. Keep an eye on my blogs for accounts of these excursions, which I illustrate with my own photographs.