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Sarah Pearse lives by the sea in South Devon with her husband and two daughters. She studied English and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick and worked in Brand PR for a variety of household brands. After moving to Switzerland in her twenties, she spent every spare moment exploring the mountains and the Swiss Alpine town of Crans Montana, the dramatic setting that inspired her novel.

Sarah has always been drawn to the dark and creepy - remote spaces and abandoned places - so when she read an article in a local Swiss magazine about the history of sanatoriums in the area, she knew she’d found the spark of the idea for her debut novel, The Sanatorium. Her short fiction has been published in a wide variety of magazines and has been sh ...more

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Average rating: 3.42 · 249,921 ratings · 23,184 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1) 3.36 avg rating — 196,610 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Retreat (Detective Elin Warner, #2) 3.62 avg rating — 42,190 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wilds (Detective Elin Warner, #3) 3.71 avg rating — 11,195 ratings — published 2024 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Sarah Pearse (?)

“Grief is like a series of bombs exploding, one after another. Every hour, a new detonation. Shock after shock after shock.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

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“Il faut bonne mémoire après qu'on a menti'
A liar should have a good memory.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

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“It’s strange, she thinks, how for her, claustrophobia doesn’t only exist in spaces outside herself, but within her too. That horrible sense of being trapped inside your own body.”
― Sarah Pearse, The Sanatorium

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July BoTM Nominations ~ "Hello Sunshine- Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Picks" ~ Final Poll

The Sanatorium

by Sarah Pearse

12 votes, 38.7%

The Scent Keeper

by Erica Bauermeister

5 votes, 16.1%

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

by Balli Kaur Jaswal

5 votes, 16.1%

This Is How It Always Is

by Laurie Frankel

4 votes, 12.9%

Whisper Network

by Chandler Baker

3 votes, 9.7%

The Chicken Sisters

by K.J. Dell'Antonia

2 votes, 6.5%

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