Sarah Goodwin is a novelist who grew up in rural Hertfordshire and now lives in Cornwall, where she continues to be inspired by the perils of both nature and mankind alike.Sarah graduated in 2014 with an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. After writing several historical novels, she decided to return to her roots and write instead about the wild, the darkness and survival, inspiring the Stranded which would become her first professionally published novel.Since 2021 she has gone on to write many more thrillers for Avon. The Alpine Retreat is her eighth novel.