Sarah Holland

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 …