Waters, Sarah

Sarah Waters is a British author, born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales. She has described growing up with her sister as a safe and idyllic period of her life. Her father was an engineer and her mother a housewife. Sarah Waters attended Milford Haven Grammar School and moved to London in the 1980s where she became involved in the lesbian and gay movement. She has read English at the University of Kent and taught at the Open University. Sarah Waters lives in Brixton, South London. In 2011 she registered partnership with her long-time partner Lucy Vaughan.