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Sarah Holland was born on November 1961 at Folkestone, Kent, England. She was the daughter of the best-selling novelist Sheila Holland, née Coates (well-know as Charlotte Lamb) and the classical biographer, ex-Times journalist Richard Holland. She has two sisters; poet Jane Holland and artist Charlotte Holland, and two brothers Michael Holland and David Holland; both musicians. She suffered epilepsy briefly in her teens and had to leave Wanstead High School, London with a handful of O levels at sixteen. Subsequently educated at home by her parents, who owned a private library of over 50,000 books, she moved to the Isle of Man with them in 1978 and, in 1980, began training to write at her mother's side. She has travelled extensively, writing and researching in 56 countries and 5 continents, many of which feature in her books. She has lived in England, the Isle of Man, Hong Kong, Australia, Holland, France and the United States (Texas and San Francisco).