Sarah Turner
Multiple Sunday Times bestselling author of Up Lit, witty contemporary fiction, and parenting diaries.
Sarah Turner is the Sunday Times bestselling author of three contemporary Up Lit novels and three non-fiction parenting books. Her first novel, Stepping Up, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick in 2023. It was also featured on BBC Radio 4’s A Good Read. Her second and third novels, On the Edge and Well, That Escalated Quickly, both reached Number 1 in the Kindle chart in 2025 and 2026 respectively.
Prior to writing novels, Sarah wrote three non-fiction parenting books after the “warts and all” blog she’d started to let off steam gathered enormous online success and changed the direction of her career in the process. Her first book, The Unmumsy Mum, was voted number 4 in Amazon’s Top 10 books of 2016 by Amazon customers and shortlisted for a British Book Award in 2017. All three titles in the Unmumsy Mum series were Sunday Times bestsellers.
Sarah’s books have been described as hilarious, warm, witty, and life-affirming and have garnered praise from Jennie Godfrey, Clare Mackintosh, Gillian McAllister, Sophie Cousens, and Cathy Bramley. Sarah was described by Glamour magazine as “pure joy.”
Sarah has a passion for writing comedy and enjoys exploring complex family dynamics and grief, always striving to achieve a balance between humor and poignancy.
Sarah lives in Devon with her husband, three sons, and Frank the cat. If you’re writing women’s fiction, Up Lit, or anything contemporary with a focus on relationships, families, and midlife, you’ll find Sarah to be a positive and encouraging writing coach. She can also help if you’re trying to manage your writing schedule around busy family life.
Sarah’s Genres
- Women’s Fiction
- Contemporary & Women’s Fiction
- Romance
- Book Club
The Unmumsy Mum
Sarah Turner’s first few months of parenting were tough. On the darkest of sleep-deprived days, when the baby would not settle and she was irritable and the house was a disaster zone, she wanted to read about someone who felt the same. Someone who would reassure her that she wasn’t a total failure. But she found nothing of the sort.
She decided then and there that she would write something herself. She would document parenthood as she found it. Not how she wanted to find it or how she wanted other people to think that she found it. But how it was. Warts and all.
Thus, her blog was born. Now with thousands of followers, The Unmumsy Mum blog covers everything from ‘baby-wearing incompetence’ to ‘second child shortcuts.’ Full of candor, humor, and charm, this book shows us that we can read every parenting manual under the sun, but still have no bloody clue—and not having a clue is just fine.
The Unmumsy Mum Diary
She’s back! The Unmumsy Mum has put pen to paper (or fingers to the keyboard!) once more to bring you the next installment of her life as mum to two young boys, documenting motherhood exactly as she finds it. Her words have made mums, dads, and grandparents everywhere laugh and cry in equal measure.
In The Unmumsy Mum Diary, Sarah shares with us a year in her life as a mum, wife, blogger, and bestselling author. With her trademark candor and wit, she documents the good days and the bad days, the giggles and the tantrums. She’ll also share poignant, life-changing moments from her year, such as her older son heading off through the school gates for the first time.
The Unmumsy Mum Diary is as honest as it is hilarious, and a peek into Sarah’s innermost thoughts will leave you in no doubt that, on those days when you feel you are not quite cut out for the job, you are most definitely not alone.
The Unmumsy Mum A–Z
From bestselling author and massively popular blogger The Unmumsy Mum comes this hilarious, irreverent, and searingly candid compendium of parenting experiences. With entries including D is for Desperation, F is for Fish Fingers, S is for Supermum, and V is for Vagina, it’s safe to say this is not your average A–Z. This book won’t tell you what sort of parent you should (or shouldn’t) be; instead, it offers a refreshingly honest account of what being a mum to three young children is really like and the surprising lessons that have been learned along the way.
If you feel as though you’re not ‘measuring up’ or are struggling to #cherisheverymoment, Sarah’s tales from the thick of it will reassure and resonate with you. Above all, her commitment to telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth will make you laugh out loud and remind you that you are, in fact, doing a great job.